| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| 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. |
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