March
25
Ep. 0098: A History of American Slavery Part IV: Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Join CJ as he discusses:
- The famous “Cotton is King” speech given by Sen. James Henry Hammond (D-SC) in 1858
- A brief defintion of the term ‘Antebellum’
- Slavery & the US Constitution
- Some major trends & patterns of Antebellum slavery
- How & why cotton became ‘king’ of the Southern economy in the Antebellum period
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