 | DrEntropy (38)
03/26/2007 | Also known as 'The Cotton Kingdom' and 'The Black Belt'-the portion of the South where cotton was the main crop. Like sugar, cotton was extremely profitable, but difficult to harvest before mechanization. As it encouraged the use a captive labor force, exhausted the soil and became steadily less profitable with time, cotton had an immense and disastrous effect on the South. As cotton's importance has faded, so has the term 'Cotton Belt', though it remains a common historical reference.
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