Black History Month- “Revolution of 1821, Hellenic “Cotton Triangle” Merchants, and the American Civil War” Panel Discussion.- February is Black History Month. As we approach the anniversary of the Hellenic/ Greek Revolution anniversary it is important to understand not only how the Greek Revolution historically affected Black History through the American Abolitionist movement and the linkages “across the pond” previously posted but also as well as during the American Civil War through the Greek Cotton Merchants who created alternate international sources of cotton. I moderated this unique panel discussion. The distinguished panel included Clemson University Professor Orville Vernon Burton the Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History and the Director of the Clemson CyberInstitute; Author/ Writer /Historian and EMBCA Director Alexander Billinis; and Lawyer/Adjunct Instructor and Graduate Candidate in History at Clemson University Megan Gaston. The Greek merchants many with aristocratic family ties to Chios in Greece were the most influential Greek American force within America from the 1850’s to the 1890’s but their influence is rarely discussed. In this panel discussion we discussed how the Greek Revolution and the Chios Massacre of 1822 caused various Hellenic mercantile families to expand their commercial firms into various areas (Constantinople,Smyrna, Teheran, Odessa, Vienna, Marseilles, Trieste, Alexandria, Liverpool, St. Petersburg) but also in America (New York, New Orleans, Charleston, etc.) and how their operations particularly dealing with the cotton trade before , and during the American Civil War helped to effect the Civil War with the shifting of cotton supplies to Egypt, India, etc. making Southern “King Cotton” no longer King and helping insure English neutrality in the war. The New York Times in the 19th Century described the activities of these Greek cotton factors and Merchants in the U.S. in a feature article and the rapid growth in the U.S. of the great Hellenic commercial firms of the Ralli Brothers, Rodocanachi, Argenti, Baltatzi, Spartalli, and Schillizi as “one of the most brilliant episodes of the commercial annals of the 19th Century” and concluded that the Hellenic merchants were “as superior a class of business men as the commercial world has ever seen…they (were) not surpassed by any race of merchants of (the) day.” #blackhistorymonth #civilwar
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6mo'and how their operations particularly dealing with the cotton trade before , and during the American Civil War helped to effect the Civil War with the shifting of cotton supplies to Egypt, India, etc. making Southern “King Cotton” no longer King and helping insure English neutrality in the war.' The #Egyptian cotton is/was well known in western Europe, for a long time. But then, one needs to fit this piece into the other main wave, the new European Imperialism all the 19th century long. Out of the common places and plain assumptions, that is, taking The New York Times of the 19th Century as the source, how properly is this visual 'book' connecting all the bolts, the specifics of the development of both economic swirls? the eastern Mediterranean, the cotton markets and the slavery? Any articles to recommend?