Vast amounts of high quality, inexpensive cotton…
1803 CE
The development of a cotton economy in the South after 1800 changes the economic relationship of natives with whites and enslaved blacks in Mississippi Territory.
As natives cede their lands to whites, they become more isolated from whites and blacks.
A great wave of public sales of former native land plus white migration (with enslaved blacks) into Mississippi Territory has guaranteed the dominance of the developing cotton agriculture.