The fields produce not over one-third as much per acre as the cotton fields of the American States. Second, the climate is not what it should be. The Summer beams with such intense fervor that it ...

BALTIMORE, Feb. 1.--The Manufacturers' Record for this week will publish a special issue devoted to the cotton manufacturing interests of the South, having compiled its information through ...

Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, shipping merchants, and the textile industry in Great Britain.

Slavery spread from the seaboard to some of the new western territories and states as new cotton fields were planted ... to the new cotton lands to the south and west. From 1810 until the Civil ...