S4 E3: The Cotton Empire
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Cotton, the World's Most Important Commodity
By the 18 fifties, enslaved people have cut down vast forest lands and two million are toiling in the fields across now eight cotton states. By this time, the louisiana purchase and the mexican american war, the us. Has conquered and claimed much more land all the way to california. And american cotton is clothing much of the world. Says baptist, as central to the global economy as oil is to day.
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