| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - King Cotton may have been dethroned, but as the nation???s leading export it remained, as the New York Times put it, ???a magnate of the very first rank.??? The trade in the ???white gold??? was crucial to the wealthy merchants who dominated the economic life of Boston, Philadelphia, New York and other commercial centers, and to a wide range of businessmen and professionals such as lawyers, banks,
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