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ten times as much cotton as he can in any other way before known and also cleanse it much better than in the usual mode . At that period slavery was losing ground as an American institution . Many Southerners of ability and foresight ...
ten times as much cotton as he can in any other way before known and also cleanse it much better than in the usual mode . At that period slavery was losing ground as an American institution . Many Southerners of ability and foresight ...
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The Cotton Gin 65 as in a rice swamp . Within five years after Whitney had puttered over his contrivance , the entire South blazed with the energy of new lands and new fortunes . White cotton fields appeared on the red soil of the ...
The Cotton Gin 65 as in a rice swamp . Within five years after Whitney had puttered over his contrivance , the entire South blazed with the energy of new lands and new fortunes . White cotton fields appeared on the red soil of the ...
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Everybody believed that “ Cotton is King " -a phrase that Southern men shouted to each other as they went their ways . Think of it ! There were four hundred thousand cotton factory operatives in England alone .
Everybody believed that “ Cotton is King " -a phrase that Southern men shouted to each other as they went their ways . Think of it ! There were four hundred thousand cotton factory operatives in England alone .
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Meet General Grant A Star book |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Garden Publishing Company, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 22 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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