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Cotton Yields in the South During the Civil War Era
An analysis estimates prewar cotton yields and project declines during 1861 65 due to blockade, cereals substitution, slave labor shifts and Federal occupation. It notes 1861 3 000 000 bales as Southern consensus, with later crops heavily curtailed, and details impacts on labor and land use across states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Fort Sumter
Orly
Economist
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
M. H. Reburn
Cotton Supply Association
Bunch
Charleston
Foreign Office
North
Devon
King Cotton
King Corn
Richmond
Confederate Congress
United States
Tennessee
Virginia
Lincoln
Mississippi Valley
Federals
Louisana