Cotton Famine
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A short encyclopedia entry on the Cotton Famine, the distress in Lancashire and other English cotton-manufacturing districts caused by the Civil War blockade of Southern ports cutting off American raw cotton. It gives figures for the number of people dependent on relief and the amount contributed, and notes the relief ships sent from the United States in 1863.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1902
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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