Please join us for a Lecture & Book Signing with author Gene Dattel on
"Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power"
 
Tuesday, June 14th at 6:30 p.m.

The American Civil War Center
500 Tredegar Street, Richmond, VA 23219

Copies of Cotton and Race will be available for purchase in hardback for $28.95
Call 804-780-1865 x10 to make a reservation or email [log in to unmask]

Gene Dattel is a financial historian, author, lecturer, government and
private sector advisor on American and Asian financial institutions, media
commentator, and former international capital markets investment banker at
Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley. He is also a theatrical contributing
writer and performer. Dattel received his B.A. in History from Yale and his
J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School. He is on the Board of Advisors of the BB
King Museum in Indianola, MS and has served as an advisory scholar to The
New York Historical Society on its Slavery II--Cotton and Commerce
exhibition (2005).

"Cotton and Race in the Making of America" is a bold, unflinching,
evenhanded interpretation of the connection between cotton, race, and the
American experience. Dattel explores the force of cotton’s economically
productive, but socially devastating march across America between 1787
and 1930. This is an American, not a Southern, story; it is a vastly
unappreciated tale that is central to America’s rise to economic power. Cotton
may no longer be king, but its legacy endures. In order to understand
American history it is necessary to understand the role of cotton.

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