Northern factories and Southern plantations formed one cotton economy

Evidence

“Cotton was the thread that held the North and South together,” he explained. The plantations in the South supplied the factories in the North—the biggest, we’d soon learn, was the Boston Manufacturing Company, owned and operated by Harvard graduate Francis Cabot Lowell in eastern Massachusetts. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 801

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Could enrich the points about tamarisk/materials trade in the trees infrastructure essay only loosely; more relevant is the web of Northern institutional complicity the reparations case maps.
• XREF: connects to: American cotton built on expropriated land and slave labor powered the English Industrial Revolution