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By 1860, cotton fueled the Southern economy and helped the Northern textile mills. Two thirds of the world's cotton was produced by the Southern plantations. The northern textile mills were effected by the disruption of the US Civil War in that by 1860, mills sold $100 million worth of cloth made from cotton.
The first American factory was created by Samuel Slater for the spinning of cotton into thread.
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In an old valley in Pakistan, cotton was being grown, spun, and woven into cloth 3,000 years before Christ. About the same time, people in Egyptwere making and wearing cotton clothes. Arab merchants brought cotton cloth to Europe about 800 AD. When Columbusfirst discovered America in 1492, he found cotton growing in the Bahamas. By 1500, cotton was known generally throughout the world.
Slaves from Africa to America, Cotton and Sugar from America to Europe, Textiles and manufactured goods to Africa.
Cotton is an important component of raw material for the textile industry.
it is foot loosing because cotton textile industry not tied to resources, transport etc.
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The cotton was sent by ship to textile manufacturers in the North and in Europe.
The Cotton Gin invented by Eli Whitney aided the British textile industry.
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It was the centre of the cotton textile industry.