02404nam 2200433 450 991080716380332120230803211058.01-59416-576-9(CKB)4100000011458367(MiAaPQ)EBC6176591(EXLCZ)99410000001145836720201011d2014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTrading with the enemy the covert economy during the American Civil War /Philip LeighYardley, Pennsylvania :Westholme,[2014]©20141 online resource (xvii, 182 pages) illustrations, maps1-59416-199-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.The world cotton economy -- Official policy -- The Port Royal experiment -- Matamoros -- Mississippi Valley trade -- Abusing the blockade -- Norfolk -- Kirby Smithdom -- Eyes tightly shut.In Trading with the Enemy: The Covert Economy During the American Civil War, New York Times Disunion contributor Philip Leigh recounts the little-known story of clandestine commerce between the North and South. Cotton was so important to the Northern economy that Yankees began growing it on the captured Sea Islands of South Carolina. Soon the neutral port of Matamoras, Mexico, became a major trading center, where nearly all the munitions shipped to the port - much of it from Northern armories - went to the Confederacy. After the fall of New Orleans and Vicksburg, a frenzy of contraband-for-cotton swept across the vast trans-Mississippi Confederacy, with Northerners sometimes buying the cotton directly from the Confederate government. A fascinating study, Trading with the Enemy adds another layer to our understanding of the Civil War.Interstate commerceUnited StatesHistory19th centuryCotton tradeUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Economic aspectsInterstate commerceHistoryCotton tradeHistory973.71Leigh Philip973488MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807163803321Trading with the enemy4113988UNINA