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Mississippi Cotton Production and Princeton Students

Antebellum (1820-1861)

A chart showing Mississippi cotton production and the number of Mississippians attending Princeton from 1800-1859.

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Atlas of American Agriculture: Part V, Crops; Section A, Cotton (Washington: GPO, 1918), 16-18. Princeton and Slavery Project, “Student Origins Database” (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2016).

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