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About the Author
Bruce Chadwick, a former journalist, is a historian, lecturer, and author of 28 books on various topics including the Civil War.
Causing the Civil War
Cotton and Slaves Data (1860)
Annotation
These maps from the 1860 census show that the regions of the South in which cotton was produced (above map) did not always correspond with the regions with the highest slave populations (lower map), undermining the argument that slavery persisted in the South only because of the peculiar necessities of cotton growing.
Citation
Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service. "Cotton Production, 1860." Accessed March 24, 2010.
Historical Census Browser. U.S. Census data, 1860. "Slaves in the U.S." Accessed March 24, 2010.