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Cotton factor
Fiduciary broker used by cotton planters / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the antebellum and Reconstruction era South, most cotton planters relied on cotton factors (also known as cotton brokers) to sell their crops for them.
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![]() Cotton factors and others go about their business in A Cotton Office in New Orleans by French painter Edgar Degas, 1873 | |
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Occupation type | Employment |
Activity sectors | Agribusiness |
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