>Without firing a gun, without drawing a sword, should they make war on us, we could bring the whole world to our feet... What would happen if no cotton was furnished for three years?... England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her save the South. No, you dare not to make war on cotton. No power on the earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king.
Was he right?
Kind of, then Britain cucked the South by turning Egypt into a giant loom and didn't care anymore
>>3241333
Did they just saw the writing on the wall?
>>3241736
They needed American corn from the North more than they needed the Southern cotton in the end, the Confederacy sort of shot itself in the foot with it's dumb "if we embargo them they'll totally HAVE to recognize our independence" idea
>fuck slave
>she gives birth to a daughter
>groom her
> fuck half slave daughter who also gives birth
> molest your nieces on the side
This fucking psychopath
>>3242811
really?
>>3245175
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Hammond
there was a really good greentext a while back going into all the details, but yeah, this dude was huge piece of shit, even by slave owner standards