A long 1842 review article from the Southern Quarterly Review, built around four works on East Indian sugar, cotton and the slave trade (including James Cropper's Letters to Wilberforce). It argues from a pro-slavery Southern viewpoint that the East India Company and British abolitionists acted together to undermine slave-grown American cotton in favor of cotton and other crops grown in British India. It covers British conquest and land policy in India, the ryot system, the West Indies emancipation, parliamentary testimony, and missionary and abolition societies. It is a polemical political and economic essay and has little on textile techniques or cloth.