The first was the unexpected importance of the cotton crop, which, through the labor of slaves and the genius of a New England inventor, passed into an extraordinary element of wealth and of imagined strength, so that we have all been summoned to homage to cotton as king.
Sumner highlights the economic significance of cotton, produced by slave labor, as a driving force in the South's power dynamics.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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