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Vegetable Proteus Cotton King of Industry and Trade
An expansive early 20th century overview extols cotton as Proteus, detailing its vast industrial uses from clothing to explosives, oil, animal feed, and fertilizers. It highlights cotton’s central role in world trade, slavery, Britain’s colonial policy, and America’s export prominence, calling cotton a people’s staple and economic king.
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Ovion
Proteus
Seven Seas
Lancashire
England
Egypt
Sudan
Mesopotamia
Australia
India
Alexander
United States
Hudson