Dependent Upon the North

I found it interesting in BCOF how the south was so reliant on the north for their goods. On pg. 92 it mentions that they were financially "more enslaved" than their negroes. Their luxuries, clothing, supplies, and equipment were all from the north, which left them in the middle of an awkward can't-live-with-them-can't-live-without-them situation. Meanwhile, the wealth of the south was reinvested in the cotton fields. As stated on pg. 97, they would sell cotton in order to buy more slaves, in order to grow more cotton, in order to make more money, in order to buy more slaves, in order to grow more cotton, etc. Cotton definitely was king. Sounds like it was quite an oppressive one, at that . . . in more ways than one.