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A new interpretation of the central part played by steamships in the economy and life of the "Cotten Kingdom," the slaveholding states that grew rich growing the cash crop. In the book, multiple aspects of how steamboats came to be on the Western waters, who built and operated them, what they meant to Southern society and culture, how they became powerful tools of racial control, and how the steamboats themselves evolved past deadly flaws, and how they eventually faded from importance in the region. It is not a book to learn steamboat engineering, but it gives readers a sense of how steamboats mattered to theouthwest and assisted cotton in becoming the most valuable American crop of the nine people of the Steenth century.
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