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Where have all the cotton fields gone? To suburban homes, shopping centers, and industrial parks.

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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.

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The "seat of the empire of the world"? Hold on there, Hammond...

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