Cotton, Slavery and the New History of Capitalism

This is part of a series i'm doing on the history of slavery. We were prompted by the new york times 16 19 project to take a closer look at history of slavery and the new history of capitalism. The reason i wanted to have paul and allan on the show is because they wrote a paper entitled cotton, slavery and thenew history of capitalism that's a pretty thorough review of this literature. So let's, let's start talking about the the research. How you came at it from the ing the economic history of agriculture. Angle how did you become interested in cotton? I think i can start there.