Question

How did the emergence of king cotton affect the south and its inhabitants

Answer 1

In its first decades the cotton boom benefited almost everyone, there were 188,000 pounds of cotton grown for markets in the U.S. By 1810, there were 93 million pounds of cotton produced. This affected the growth of slavery. In 1790, there were 657,000 slaves in southern states. By 1810, there were almost 1.3 million.