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Where have all the cotton fields gone? To suburban homes, shopping centers, and industrial parks.
And of course, Great Britain didn't wait around for the South and its "King" Cotton. They went ahead and started ramping up production in Egypt and converting India from a producer of calicoes to raw cotton for the British mills.
The "seat of the empire of the world"? Hold on there, Hammond...
Where have all the cotton fields gone? To suburban homes, shopping centers, and industrial parks.
And of course, Great Britain didn't wait around for the South and its "King" Cotton. They went ahead and started ramping up production in Egypt and converting India from a producer of calicoes to raw cotton for the British mills.
The "seat of the empire of the world"? Hold on there, Hammond...