John Weaver described the settlement of the American Cotton Belt as “a great land rush” [1]. Instead of a “gold rush” (which we are are
Category: South Carolina: Womb of the Cotton Belt
8.5 Cotton’s Profit Life-Cycle: Tough Times for Cotton Leads to Upcountry Industrialization
Hard times hit the Upcountry especially because its soils were wearing thin. Upcountry plantation owners replaced lost fields by buying out bankrupted neighbors, but increasingly
8.4 Deep South Political Culture Integrated Into South Carolina and Georgia State Policy Systems
We could have titled this module “South Carolina Upcountry Deep South Culture Makes its Peace with the Barbadian/Federalist South Carolina Political Culture. Formation of the
8.3 Deep South Political Culture Develops in the Womb of the Cotton Belt: Upcountry South Carolina
The Cotton Belt was an overnight phenomena that took its own sweet time, over seventy years. The development of the Deep South Cotton Belt, without
8.2 The Rise of the Cotton Belt: the Last Hurrah of the Agricultural Revolution
Comparing different regions reveals critical realities that affected the course of American ED. After 1789 (1) the North, led by Yankees and Midlanders, embraced the
8.1 Deep South Political Culture and the South’s Antebellum Economic Path
A simplistic look at American 19th Century history might summarize its politics and economy as a clash between two rival, starkly opposed, political cultures and
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