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... production , preferring wine and silk . But the plant was adapted to soil and climate , the English market absorbed the increasing bulk for home consumption or for re - exportation , and production expanded in time to Maryland and ...
... production , preferring wine and silk . But the plant was adapted to soil and climate , the English market absorbed the increasing bulk for home consumption or for re - exportation , and production expanded in time to Maryland and ...
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... production . Northern and English ship- owners transported cotton bales to New and Old Eng- land . Mill owners and their laborers made livelihoods from manufacturing it . Eastern middlemen lined their pockets with commissions . The ...
... production . Northern and English ship- owners transported cotton bales to New and Old Eng- land . Mill owners and their laborers made livelihoods from manufacturing it . Eastern middlemen lined their pockets with commissions . The ...
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... production declined from 160,000,000 pounds in 1850 to 120,000,000 in 1860. Across the Savannah River , production increased slightly in the same decade , from 39,000,000 to 53,000,000 pounds . Louisiana en- tered the competition in a ...
... production declined from 160,000,000 pounds in 1850 to 120,000,000 in 1860. Across the Savannah River , production increased slightly in the same decade , from 39,000,000 to 53,000,000 pounds . Louisiana en- tered the competition in a ...
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PART IA BASIC HISTORY OF THE OLD SOUTH | 7 |
Chesapeake Country | 15 |
CarolinaGeorgia Low Country | 23 |
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