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Front Porch Harry Watson Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 4, 1998, pp. 1-2 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0015 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423771/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:57 GMT from JHU Libraries front porch The Confederate States of America once pinned its hopes on foreign recogni- tion. Those were the days of "cotton diplomacy," when southern exports were deemed essential to the British economy, and Confederate leaders proudly boasted that the industrial nations of Europe could never survive without the South. "You dare not make war on cotton," vaunted James Henry Hammond, senator from South Carolina. "No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king." Needless to say, things didn't work out the way the senator intended. As it hap- pened, the outside world needed the South much less than the other way around, and moral and cultural isolation have seemed more typical of Dixie's history than the superpower status projected for the Cotton Kingdom. A good bit of this iso- lation has been self-imposed, as defeat, impoverishment, and immobility pushed the postbellum South into more than its share of self-absorption. above: Union Street in Plymouth, Devon, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Front Porch

Watson, Harry L.
Southern Cultures , Volume 4 (4) – Jan 4, 2012
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Harry Watson Southern Cultures, Volume 4, Number 4, 1998, pp. 1-2 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1998.0015 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423771/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:57 GMT from JHU Libraries front porch The Confederate States of America once pinned its hopes on foreign recogni- tion. Those were the days of "cotton diplomacy," when southern exports were deemed essential to the British economy, and Confederate leaders proudly boasted that the industrial nations of Europe could never survive without the South. "You dare not make war on cotton," vaunted James Henry Hammond, senator from South Carolina. "No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king." Needless to say, things didn't work out the way the senator intended. As it hap- pened, the outside world needed the South much less than the other way around, and moral and cultural isolation have seemed more typical of Dixie's history than the superpower status projected for the Cotton Kingdom. A good bit of this iso- lation has been self-imposed, as defeat, impoverishment, and immobility pushed the postbellum South into more than its share of self-absorption. above: Union Street in Plymouth, Devon,

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