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As slavery was an institution whose time had largely passed, the South tried to exploit this by making it part of its newly-invented myth of noble aristocracy.

It was the rapid and recent growth of the cotton industry that had turned quite ordinary farmers into men of great wealth and power, and they fantasized that they belonged to some ancient order of chivalry.

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