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Bookmark or Share- “Cotton Is King” speech before U.S. Senate, 1858 - GeniusCotton is king. Until lately the Bank of England was king; but she tried to put her screws as usual, the fall before last, upon the cotton crop, and was utterly vanquished. The last power...
- King Cotton | Antebellum South, Slavery, Plantations | BritannicaKing Cotton, phrase frequently used by Southern politicians and authors prior to the American Civil War, indicating the economic and political importance of cotton production. After the invention of the cotton gin (1793), cotton surpassed tobacco as the dominant cash crop in the agricultural economy of the South, soon comprising more than half ...
- Why Was Cotton ‘King’? - PBSCotton was 'king' in the plantation economy of the Deep South. The cotton economy had close ties to the Northern banking industry, New England textile factories and the economy of Great...
- Cotton is King - Teaching American HistoryCotton is king. Until lately the Bank of England was king; but she tried to put her screws as usual, the fall before last, upon the cotton crop, and was utterly vanquished. The last power has been conquered.
- "Cotton is King" - American Battlefield TrustIn his speech to the United States Senate on March 4, 1858, he put words to a long-brewing Southern philosophy: “Cotton is King.” “Without firing a gun, without drawing a sword, should they make war on us we could bring the whole world to our feet […]
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