Cotton Belt (region)

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'The Cotton Belt' is one of the belt regions in the southern states of the USA where cotton was the predominant crop in the 19th century/late 18th century. The heartland of the Cotton Belt was Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, together with parts of Arkansas and Texas. In this region, the plantation system and slavery combined with rich soils and a favourable climate to produce such crops, were the basis of prosperity for a privileged few in the Old South.

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