Assertion: cotton | /r/CapableOf | provide over half the nation's exports
Facets:
value: in the last three antebellum decades
type: TEMPORAL
value: well
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Cotton attracted millions of settlers into the Southwest; southern demand for foodstuffs helped bring population into the Old Northwest; eastern merchants found some of their best customers in the cotton belt; New England textile manufacturers and workers relied for their well-being on the South's chief export; and in the last three antebellum decades, cotton provided well over half the nation's exports.