[DoodleDawg]

Unless you choose to believe ships traveled from NYC empty to load cotton in southern ports. Or that they traveled empty from Europe to southern ports.

Likely the former. In the year prior to the war something like 90% of all cotton exported left from southern ports. Less than 10% was shipped out of New York. Based on tariff collections they weren't showing up packed with imports.

NYC was the #1 cotton export port, followed by New Orleans and Mobile, but I think at quite some distance.

I'd like to see your source for those figures.

[Sherman Logan]

I would too. Can’t seem to find it. If you run across any numbers, I’d appreciate a ping.

I’m not talking here about cotton shipped out of a port, but cotton shipped out of a port to overseas.