Question

Why did antebellum Southerners call cotton "King?"

Answer 1

The most commonly used phrase describing the growth of the American economy in the 1830s and 1840s was “Cotton Is King.” We think of this slogan today as describing the plantation economy of the slavery states in the Deep South, which led to the creation of “the second Middle Passage.”

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Answer 2

King Cotton was used by southerners after the American Civil war. they used King"because it showed how powerful cotton production was economically and politically.