Why was cotton considered king in Louisiana?

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Thomas Oellrich · Answer 1 · 2020-11-22T04:16:17+0000

Cotton greatly increased the productivity of harvesting by slaves. Britain, the most powerful nation in the world, relied on slave-produced American cotton for over 80 per cent of its essential industrial raw material.

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