Before the 1800s, European merchants imported cotton primarily from Mississippi. At that time cotton was one of the major important goods traded in the south.
After the decline in the cotton production capacity of South Carolina in the nineteenth century, The states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana became the four major cotton-producing states.
Prior to the civil war in America, these four states combined to raise more than half of the world's cotton.
Cotton later became the South's major cash crop thereby increasing it commercial value and it quickly eclipsed tobacco, rice, and sugar in economic importance.
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