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But it is the aristocratic center of the lower Mississippi Valley cotton-planting interests.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “But it is the aristocratic center of the lower Mississippi Valley cotton-planting interests.”
Editor's note · Context
Reid acknowledges Natchez's significance in the cotton-planting economy of the region.
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