"Cotton and the Civil War" Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 May 2019 4:12 p.m. PST |
"If slavery was the corner stone of the Confederacy, cotton was its foundation. At home its social and economic institutions rested upon cotton; abroad its diplomacy centered around the well-known dependence of Europe…upon an uninterrupted supply of cotton from the southern states…."
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| Blutarski | 27 May 2019 7:25 p.m. PST |
Great Britain had indeed built up a reserve of raw cotton as a hedge against the rapidly developing political instability in the US, but is said to have had only about 4-6 months worth (in terms of production requirements) in hand. This reserve was depleted by August 1861, at which point the onset of "The Great Cotton Famine" in Great Britain essentially collapsed the British textile industry. FWIW. B |
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