Cotton transformed the United States, making fertile land in the Deep South, from Georgia to Texas, extraordinarily valuable. Growing more cotton meant an increased demand for slaves. Slaves in ...
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BALTIMORE, Feb. 1.--The Manufacturers' Record for this week will publish a special issue devoted to the cotton manufacturing interests of the South, having compiled its information through ...
A long time ago—during the 2010s—a young, Harvard-educated veteran from the Deep South crossed paths with Washington’s most senior Republican intellectual. His name was Tom Cotton.