English

Noun

King Cotton ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A personification of the cotton production of the southern United States.

References

• Frank Lawrence Owsley, King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign relations of the Confederate States of America (1931)
• Boyer, The Enduring Vision. 4th Edition
• John Mack Faragher, et al., Out of Many: A History of the American People. Volume 1, Fourth Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003