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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

10423 Appendix John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:10423
AUTHOR:Appendix
QUOTATION:Cotton is King; or, Slavery in the Light of Political Economy.
ATTRIBUTION:This is the title of a book by David Christy (1855).



The expression “Cotton is king” was used by James Henry Hammond in the United States Senate, March, 1858.