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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Those planters, merchants, and manufacturers, collectively, who control the cotton trade; especially, in United States history, before the civil war, the cotton-planting interest in the slave States.
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- noun US, historical A government by the cotton industry as in pre-Civil War South.
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cotton + -cracy
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