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King Cotton, a panoramic photograph of a cotton plantation in 1907, now housed in the Library of Congress "King Cotton" is a slogan that summarized the strategy used before the American Civil War (of 1861–1865) by secessionists in the southern states (the future Confederate States of America) to claim the feasibility of secession and to prove there was no need to fear a war with the northern ...
He popularized the phrase that "Cotton is King" in his March 4, 1858, speech to the U.S. Senate, saying: "In all social systems, there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life...It constitutes the very mudsill of society." He uttered the oft-repeated words, "You dare not make war on cotton — no power on earth ...
Southern cotton, also referred to as King Cotton, dominated the global cotton supply. By the late 1850s, Southern cotton had accounted for 77 percent of the 800 million pounds of cotton consumed in Britain, 90 percent of the 192 million pounds used in France, 60 percent of the 115 million pounds spun in the German Zollverein , and as much as 92 ...
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Charles is set to give the first King’s Speech in seven decades to mark the start of the next session of Parliament.
King Cotton in Modern America: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945 (2010) excerpt; Riello, Giorgio. Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (2015) excerpt; Riello, Giorgio. How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500–1850 (2013) Yafa, Stephen (2006). Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary ...
The King’s Speech also revealed a plan to subject the online streaming giants like Netflix to a new video-on-demand code drafted and enforced by Ofcom that will apply similar standards to those ...
Mudsill theory is the proposition that there must be, and always has been, a lower class or underclass for the upper classes and the rest of society to rest upon.. The term derives from a mudsill, the lowest threshold that supports the foundation for a building.