Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America /
Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it.
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New York :
Scholastic Nonfiction,
©2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Unraveling the threads
- pt. 1. King Cotton : before the Civil War
- ch. 1. A shoeful of cotton seeds
- ch. 2. Up before daybreak
- ch. 3 Mountains of cotton
- ch. 4. At the clang of a bell : the mill girls of Lowell
- pt. 2. Tough times : the Civil War and after
- ch. 5. From can to can't : sharecroppers and tenant farmers
- ch. 6. They called us lintheads : mill villages of the South
- ch. 7. Cotton pickers : the forces of change
- ch. 8. Mill workers : the last generation
- A hundred pounds of cotton : children then and now
- Further reading for young people
- Selected bibliography
- Notes
- Text permissions
- Photo credits
- Index.