Cotton:: From Southern Fields to the Memphis Market Edward J. Woods French-Canadians

French-Canadians

It's better not to ask who pulls the strings

and in the meantime making a ton of money

Book 2) will be available September of 2012

Wonderfully captivating

Cotton:: From Southern Fields to the Memphis Market Edward J. Woods French-CanadiansIn the barbeque joints and plate lunch cafes off Memphis's Front Street, one is easily reminded of the days when cotton was king, of a society of characters and cads; the big time and the small time; the rich and the richer; the hangers on, anointed, powerful, and busted. Cotton created empires in agriculture, transportation, banking, and warehousing. It also shackled the dreams and lives of those born into slavery and sharecropping. Although many of