LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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France
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The northern cotton millers
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Canada
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Britain
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the Civil War, Union forces established a blockade of Confederate ports designed to prevent the export of cotton and the smuggling of war materiel into the Confederacy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Indeed, it was the South’s economic backbone. When the southern states seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America in 1861, they used cotton to provide revenue for its government, arms for its military, and the economic power for a diplomatic strategy for the fledgling Confederate nation.
Detailed explanation-3: -The exports of cotton from the South fell by nearly 95 percent by the end of war due to the Union Blockade. Blockade runners could make a lot of money if their ships and cargo successfully passed the blockade. The Union Navy captured or destroyed around 1, 500 blockade runner ships during the course of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Union, after all, also needed money to fight the war, and any cotton its soldiers could seize could be sold for a good price. As a result, planters who produced cotton generally kept it on the plantation, sometimes hidden, even after it was sold to factors. As a result, official production plummeted.