[Bull Snipe]

I tend to suspect the plantation owners with thousands of acres of land and slaves in the millions, produced the majority of cotton produced in the South.

[FLT-bird]

I tend to suspect the plantation owners with thousands of acres of land and slaves in the millions, produced the majority of cotton produced in the South.

I tend to suspect that the bulk of the land in the South which was not owned by large plantation owners but instead by lower through upper middle class farmers produced a hell of a lot of the cotton produced in the South.

[DiogenesLamp]

I tend to suspect the plantation owners with thousands of acres of land and slaves in the millions, produced the majority of cotton produced in the South.

I suspect that is likely true.