King Cotton (novel)
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King Cotton (novel)
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King Cotton is a 1947 historical novel by the British writer Thomas Armstrong. It focuses on Lancashire in the 1850s and 1860s and the cotton mills that turned raw cotton imported from the American South into textiles. It takes its title from the slogan of King Cotton a popular boast about the economic power that the lucrative crop gave to the southerners in their dispute with the North. The novel portrays the hardships caused to the mill communities of northern England, by the Union Blockade du
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1947 novel
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