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Vest pocket park located at 182 Mulberry Street

This editorial, originally from the Providence Post but reprinted in the Columbian Register, discussed views on abolition in England. The correspondent asserted that the British care more for a stable cotton supply than the freedom of the slaves and…

This report from the New York Herald examined the economic impact of the war on New England. While many factories shut down because of the cotton shortage, the article reported that textile workers were gainfully employed as newly enlisted soldiers…

This is a drawing of New York City Hall.

Engraving for Harper's Weekly of cotton and sugar brought out to be sold after the fall of Memphis to the Union Army.

This report in the Boston Daily Advertiser used the Manchester Cotton Report to estimate the amount of cotton that had evaded the Union blockade.

This temporary restraining order, issued by Judge Richard Huttner, protected hundreds of gardens after the destruction by the city of Esperanza Community Garden. This court order was eventually folded into the Eliot Spitzer agreement in 2002.

State Department dispatch to William Seward from William Dayton, recounting Louis Napoleon III's desperation to procure cotton for France.

Excerpts from a speech delivered in the senate before the civil war, South Carolina senator James Henry Hammond warned of dire consequences if the south was unable to deliver cotton to the world.

Hand drawn poster from the National Child Welfare Association on 70 fifth Avenue in New York City depicting children tending to garden plots in front of a school building