A Guide to the Images of the Bronze Map on the Lawn of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
18. Shipping Cotton to the World
Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers
Alabama's chief market commodity during the antebellum period was cotton. Steamboats transported cotton
from the fields of the Black Belt to the port of Mobile for shipment to factories in the North and in Europe.
Return to Bronze Map main page
|
|
Updated: April 18, 2008 http://www.archives.alabama.gov/map/18.html |  |
