"King Cotton" is a slogan that summarized the strategy used before the American Civil War (of 1861–1865) by secessionists in the southern states (the...

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King Cotton John Philip Sousa's "King Cotton", which was composed in 1895, being performed by the United States Marine Corps Band Problems playing this...

King Cotton was a phrase used to illustrate the importance of cotton to the Confederate economy. King Cotton may also refer to: King Cotton (march), a...

production of cotton. Southern cotton, also referred to as King Cotton, dominated the global cotton supply. By the late 1850s, Southern cotton had accounted...

The history of cotton can be traced from its domestication, through the important role it played in the history of India, the British Empire, and the United...

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...

King Cotton is the stage name of Dicky Sony, an American Texas blues singer born in 1945 in Navasota, Texas, United States. He was the lead vocalist and...

Organic cotton is generally defined as cotton that is grown organically in subtropical countries such as India, Turkey, China, and parts of the USA from...

King Cotton Holiday Classic is a national-level high school basketball tournament held in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The tournament was founded by Travis Creed...

King Cotton was a specially commissioned musical written by Jimmy McGovern and directed by Jude Kelly, based on an idea by Ian Brownbill and designed...

The King Cotton Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in February at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is...

exports more cotton than any other country, though it ranks third in total production, behind China and India. Almost all of the cotton fiber growth and...

Cotton Lyndal Hill is a fictional character in the Fox animated series King of the Hill voiced by Toby Huss. He was the father of Hank Hill, Good Hank...

Gossypium barbadense is one of several species of cotton. It is in the mallow family. It has been cultivated since antiquity, but has been especially prized...

at 342 shows. King was born on a cotton plantation of Berclair, near the city of Itta Bena, Mississippi, and later worked at a cotton gin in Indianola...

formerly the Savannah Cotton Exchange, was built in 1876 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Its function was to provide King Cotton factors, brokers serving...

Carnival Memphis (formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival) is a series of parties and festivals staged annually since 1931 in Memphis, Tennessee...

by President Jefferson Davis, was dominated by "King Cotton," the idea that British dependence on cotton for its large textile industry would lead to diplomatic...

A cotton gin — meaning "cotton engine" — is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity...

Soul Train host Don Cornelius; singer Courtney Love; Navasota singer King Cotton; original "Human Beat-Box" Doug E. Fresh; ska-punk band Fishbone (who...

The Lancashire Cotton Famine, also known as the Cotton Famine or the Cotton Panic (1861–65), was a depression in the textile industry of North West England...

Confederates who had believed that "cotton is king", that is, that Britain had to support the Confederacy to obtain cotton, proved mistaken. The British had...

betting on the opening and closing rates of cotton transmitted from the New York Cotton Exchange to the Bombay Cotton Exchange. It originates from before the...

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 11–34. ISBN 0-253-33822-0. OCLC 1148084732. Owsley, Frank L. (1959). King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America. University...

was a trading center and market town during the antebellum years of King Cotton in the South. It was also an important armaments-manufacturing and iron...

Foreign Lands and People" from Scenes from Childhood - Robert Schumann King Cotton - John Philip Sousa "Auf dem Wasser zu singen", D 774 - Franz Schubert...

embargoing cotton exports in 1861 before the blockade was effective; by the time they realized the mistake, it was too late. "King Cotton" was dead, as...

1994 drama, Priest. McGovern wrote the book for the musical stage show King Cotton, which explores links between the Atlantic slave trade and industrialisation...