King cotton

Friday, December 6, 2013

There was a time before the Civil War when cotton was king and the major export of the states south of the Mason Dixon Line. It thrived as an agricultural product in the deep south and was a major export to the cotton mills of Great Britain and here at home in New England. It was so profitable that the Confederate States of America imposed an embargo on the export of cotton to England in hopes of increasing the demand and receiving a higher price for it. This backfired because the English mills had a surplus of cotton and they also imported it from other countries.

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