Introduction: Imagining a Confederate economy -- Shifting cultivation, slavery, and economic development … -- Agricultural reform and state activism -- Explaining Lieber's paradox : railroads, state building, and slavery -- Redefining free …

centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply … demonstrates how homemaking was a crucial part of the battle over slavery and freedom, a fight that continues today in …