Significant Aspects of the Atlanta Cotton Exposition
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A February 1882 magazine article reflecting on the 1881 International Cotton Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, directed by H. I. Kimball. It argues the fair is neither truly international nor chiefly about cotton, but a showcase of new processes, machinery for ginning, baling, spinning and weaving, and cotton-seed treatment, and also of Southern minerals and resources. Much of the text discusses post-Civil War social and economic change in the South: attitudes toward slavery (quoting Senator Hammond), Black labor, planter credit and commission merchants, small-farm cotton growing, roller versus saw gins, cotton grading, and railway growth.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- February 1882
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 12
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