Six films unravelling some of the technical, scientific, economic and political threads in the story of one of the world's most important textiles. Written and presented by Anthony Burton Masters and Slaves
The demand for more raw cotton switched to America. In South Carolina and elsewhere experimental crop planting showed that the southern states were ideal sites. The slave society grew and brought social problems and Eli Whitney 's gin revolutionised production. A whole new transport system took the cotton down the rivers to the sea.
Film cameraman IAN PUNTER Film editor keith WILTON Producer MICHAEL GARROD
Book (same title) £10.95 from booksellers. The Cotton Kingdom leaflet prepared by the ETB is available from The Rise and Fall of King Cotton, BBCtv. London [Postcode removed]. Please enclose an sae