Georgia and the Cotton Belt of the lower South were in a panic.
What did you generally do when you were with the Cotton Belt?
In every part of the Cotton Belt the looting of cotton went on.
Some are of immense size and probably as large as can be found north of the Cotton Belt.
The Africans were sold in the Cotton Belt, their existence virtually creating two distinct political parties.
For many years the one crop system has been the bane of the Cotton Belt.
As a centre of trade for the “Cotton Belt,” it has a large wholesale and retail business; and it is an important cotton market.
It is due to the fertile soil of that part of the coastal plain known as the "Cotton Belt."
The Union armies occupied portions of the Cotton Belt early in 1862, and American cotton was again exported.
It is in the center of the Cotton Belt and this staple is proving a very profitable one.