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... cotton gin the task of separating one pound of cotton from its seed required eight or ten hours of labor . A field - hand could raise about twenty - five hundred pounds of cotton in a season , on good land , but the separation of the ...
... cotton gin the task of separating one pound of cotton from its seed required eight or ten hours of labor . A field - hand could raise about twenty - five hundred pounds of cotton in a season , on good land , but the separation of the ...
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... cotton one of the great agricultural prod- ucts of the United States . It put fresh life into the languid in- stitution of slavery , perpetuated the slave system , and created a new Southern aristocracy . Without the cotton gin , there ...
... cotton one of the great agricultural prod- ucts of the United States . It put fresh life into the languid in- stitution of slavery , perpetuated the slave system , and created a new Southern aristocracy . Without the cotton gin , there ...
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... Cotton is King " -a phrase that Southern men shouted to each other as they went their ways . Think of it ! There were four hundred thou- sand cotton factory operatives in England alone . They would all be out of work and starving if the ...
... Cotton is King " -a phrase that Southern men shouted to each other as they went their ways . Think of it ! There were four hundred thou- sand cotton factory operatives in England alone . They would all be out of work and starving if the ...
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MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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