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    "title": "The cotton kingdom",
    "description": "During the antebellum period, cotton was considered “king“ in the South, as it was the region’s predominant cash crop. Cotton cultivation began in coastal South Carolina, but with the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, spread rapidly as far west as Texas. Requiring fertile soil and an extensive growing season, there was a northern geographic limit to cotton cultivation. This boundary is suggested by the “mean summer temperature“ line on this detailed statistical map delineating the major areas of cotton production. Published by Brookline resident Edward Atkinson, this map was one of many documents about cotton that he authored. An executive officer for a number of Boston area textile factories, Atkinson was also an ardent abolitionist and wrote numerous tracts advocating cotton cultivation with free labor.",
    "date": "[\"[1863]\"]",
    "year": 1863,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_006560",
    "creators": [
        "Atkinson, Edward, 1827-1905"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Cotton trade--Southern States",
        "Slavery--Southern States",
        "Southern States--Maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "North and Central America",
        "Southern United States",
        "United States"
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    "pubPlace": "Boston, Mass",
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        "Includes map and statistics relating to crops, temperature, population, etc.",
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