YOUNG ALFRED F. JONES & ARTHUR KIRKLAND ~ COTTON FIELDS

✺ WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BITTY BABY MY MAMA WOULD ROCK ME IN THE CRADLE, IN THEM OLD, COTTON FIELDS BACK HOME ✺ IT WAS DOWN IN LOUISIANA JUST ABOUT A MILE FROM TEXARKANA, IN THEM OLD, COTTON FIELDS BACK HOME ✺ AND WHEN THEN COTTON BALLS GET ROTTEN YOU CAN'T PICK VERY MUCH COTTON, IN THEM OLD, COTTON FIELDS BACK HOME ✺ ✺ ✺ [COLONIAL AMERICA PRODUCED VERY LITTLE COTTON. AS LATE AS 1791, THE UNITED STATES ONLY PRODUCED TWO MILLION POUNDS OF THE FIBER. BY THE DAWN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, HOWEVER, THE CONDITIONS FOR AN UNPRECEDENTED COTTON BOOM HAD EMERGED: RAPIDLY RISING DEMAND FROM BRITISH TEXTILE INDUSTRY, FOLLOWING INNOVATIONS IN SPINNING, WEAVING, AND STEAM POWER TECHNOLOGIES; IMPROVEMENTS IN GINNING TECHNOLOGY WHICH FACILITATED THE EASY SEPARATION OF THE FIBERS FROM THE SEEDS; THE AVAILABILITY OF INEXPENSIVE LAND WITH SOIL AND CLIMATE CONDUCIVE TO THE GROWTH OF COTTON; AND STRONG LEGAL AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS SECURING THE MAINTENANCE OF AN ENSLAVED LABOR FORCE. BY 1801, THE ANNUAL PRODUCTION OF COTTON HAD INCREASED TO 48 MILLION POUNDS, IN 1860, IT STOOD AT A PHENOMENAL 1,650 MILLION POUNDS. AS EARLY AS THE 1830S THE UNITED STATES PRODUCED MORE COTTON THAN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES COMBINED, AND THE VALUE OF COTTON EXPORTS EXCEEDED THE VALUE OF ALL OTHER AMERICAN EXPORTS PUT TOGETHER.] ✺ ✺ ✺

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