Snake Featherston
Banned
I heard something similar. The CSA attempted to use 'King Cotton' to get the British into the war, but it failed disastrously because the British didn't actually need Confederate cotton, Egypt and India did make up for it. That said, I do think Cotton brought the South some cash even after the Civil War- even though there were other suppliers, they didn't totally replace the CSA for a number of years.
Well, it was that way because the South's bumper crops of 1859 filled the warehouses of Britain's industrial cities for two years. By the time they were running low, Egypt and India had already started filling the slack in with an ability to progressively move up to that and the blockade was plenty effective enough. Most Confederate cotton traded outside CS soil was actually with the United States....