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The vast sweep of territory stretching from Georgia to the Father of Waters, the best cotton land in the world, thus rose in value as if the wand of a financial deity had been waved over it.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The vast sweep of territory stretching from Georgia to the Father of Waters, the best cotton land in the world, thus…”
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Beveridge describes the dramatic increase in land value in the South due to the cotton industry.
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