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...ific picture of a beaten South, "when the northern soldier would tread her cotton fields, when the slave should be made free and the proud Southerner stricke ...d fever. He managed to maintain his wealth during the Civil War by selling cotton to U.S. Treasury agents. After the war, he was estimated to be among the fi

...cially the ante-bellum and Civil War eras. His most important book, ''King Cotton Diplomacy'' (1931), remains the major study of Confederate diplomacy. ...the position of the South vis-à-vis the North was created not by slavery, cotton, or states' rights, but by the two regions' misunderstanding of each other.

...or tent fabrics. In some areas, tribal weavers also use cotton. Although [[cotton]] is actually more stable than wool, it is less durable and often more expe ...using a weighted object called a spindle. When a twist of the raw wool or cotton is attached to the spindle and the spindle is spun and dropped, it pulls th

Modern belts can be made from [[leather]], [[nylon]], [[cotton]], [[chain]], or other decorative material. Most belts are made from a mat

...d commercial center in the region. Uzbekistan is the world's third-largest cotton producer, although its intensive farming has caused great ecological damage

| quote = In 1924, a fire in the hold of a steamship carrying cotton prompted the Houston Fire Commissioner to declare that the Port of Houston

Arthur Hugh Clough, the son of James Clough, a cotton merchant, and Anne Perfect, was born in Rodney Street, [[Liverpool]] on Jan

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...cotton thread and textiles. This policy failed because of resistance from cotton textile industrialists, who relocated textile facilities and capital to Hon

...oleskin]], originally the skin of a mole, but later a heavy, soft, durable cotton fabric, or clothing made from this

* Aiken, Charles S. ''The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War'' Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 * Phillips, Ulrich B. "The Economic Cost of Slaveholding in the Cotton Belt," ''Political Science Quarterly'' 20#2 (Jun., 1905), pp. 257-275 [http

...rge irrigation systems were developed and the region became specialized in cotton growing. Both of these landlocked countries are losing arable land to soil

...Lower South to East Texas where the climate and soil allowed for intensive cotton cultivation. Most of these plantations produced for an export market. Thi ...mmer, and their smaller size and hooves were well suited for such crops as cotton, tobacco, and sugar. The character of soils and climate in the lower South

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...ood for a settlement of the slavery issue at any price for the sake of the cotton trade. The terms "Woolly Heads" and "Amalgamationistss" were also given to * Brauer, Kinley J. ''Cotton versus Conscience: Massachusetts Whig Politics and Southwestern Expansion,

...avily polluted and is drying up, mostly as a result of badly implemented [[cotton]] [[irrigation]] schemes.

...cloth in every country, to the industrial revolution in Britain, driven by cotton and wool yarn and cloth factories, which then spread to Europe, America, Ja ...rments and bedding. Demand for Indian cotton textiles, especially the 100% cotton fabric known as calico, increased in the 16th century. European textile mak

...sidered in terms of large plantations with more than 20 slaves that grew [[cotton]] and other crops for export, and the "plain folk", who owned few or no sla ...Historians define a plantation as having 20 or more slaves (of all ages). Cotton was the main crop in a broad swath (called the "Black Belt") that included

Sueded silk, sueded cotton and similar sueded fabrics are brushed, sanded or chemically treated for ex

* Daniels, G. W. "American Cotton Trade with Liverpool under the Embargo and Non-intercourse Acts." ''America