Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...James Madison, later President, who was a member of the convention, said in a conversation with Coxe, "There was no reason to doubt that the United States would one day become a great cotton-producing country." And in the same year Thomas Jefferson wrote to M. de Warville, under date of August 15: " The four southernmost states make a great deal of cotton. Their poor are almost entirely clothed in it winter and summer. In winter they wear shirts of it, and outer clothing of cotton and wool mixed. In summer their shirts are linen, but the outer clothing cotton. The dress of the women is almost entirely of cotton manufactured by themselves, except the richer class, and even many of these wear a good deal of homespun cotton. It is as well manufactured as the calicoes of Europe. Those four states furnish a great deal of cotton to the states north of them, who cannot make, as being too cold." The best evidence proves that the first culture of cotton in the South was made on the peninsula between the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, and that the growth of cotton spread across to Western Maryland and Virginia, and so on extended until it had become the great Southern crop. OHIGIN OP SEA ISLAND COTTON AND BKGINNINO OF ITS CULTIVATION IN THE SOUTH The story of Sea Island cotton is much more precise. In 1785 Patrick Walsh, of Kingston, Jamaica, persuaded his friend, Frank Levett, who with his family and negroes was in a distressed condition, to settle on Sapelo, one of the islands off the coast of Georgia, and plant provisions. Walsh sent him in 1786 a large quantity of various seeds of Jamaica, and also three large sacks of the Pernambuco cotton seed. Levett wrote Walsh in 1789: --"Being in want of the sacks for gathering in my provisions I shook...
