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Screenshot of the article "King Cotton: monarch or pretender? The state of the market for raw cotton on the eve of the American Civil War" from JSTOR. Choice excerpt, a quote from SC senator James Hammond: "What would happen if no cotton were furnished for three years? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but this is certain: old England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her. ... No, you dare not make war upon cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king!"

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Screenshot of the article "King Cotton: monarch or pretender? The state of the market for raw cotton on the eve of the American Civil War" from JSTOR. Choice excerpt, a quote from SC senator James Hammond: "What would happen if no cotton were furnished for three years? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but this is certain: old England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her. ... No, you dare not make war upon cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king!"
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Sarah Taber (sarahtaber@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 04:17:30 JST Sarah Taber
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It helps explain why the Confederacy was so cocky!
They really thought they could force the British Empire to come to their rescue & fight the North for them.
How? By withholding their cotton, & bringing English textile manufacturing to its knees. AKA starting a trade war with the British Empire.

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