Cotton factor

Cotton factor
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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Employment
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Agribusiness
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Factor

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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