John Bull and His Cotton
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A satirical one-page piece from Vanity Fair (1861) mocking British anxiety over cotton supplies during the American Civil War. It ridicules the London Times for proposing Chittagong as an alternative source of cotton and for suggesting that the local Kookies be set to planting it instead of fighting.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- September 21, 1861
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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