cottonocracy

(ˌkɒtəˈnɒkrəsɪ)

n, pl -cies

informal a group amongst the upper class consisting of those members whose wealth comes from the cotton trade

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cottonocracy

that portion of the upper class whose wealth comes from the cotton trade. — cottonocrat, n.

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Months later the editor was still harping upon the issue: "We never thought it a disgrace to labor," he sermonized, "or to eat bread and meat `by the sweat of our brow.' It may suit the hateful aristocrats, and purse proud nabobs of Cottonocracy, to frown down on laboring men and mechanics," the former carpenter declared, "but we Union men, in the Old Confederacy, learned a different lesson from the signers of the Declaration of Independence, many of whom were mechanics and day-laborers." (53)

Contesting secession: Parson Brownlow and the rhetoric of proslavery unionism, 1860-1861

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