American companies and consumers can buy some of the excess commodities, but there's a limit to domestic demand.

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For theimmediate future, however, the supply of cotton in this country will be fully adequate to the wants of the trade, more especially as with the continued unfavorable state of trade in ...

As cotton cultivation spread, slaveholders in the tobacco belt, whose crop was no longer profitable, made huge profits by selling their slaves. This domestic slave trade devastated black families.

Cotton prices are up 5 points in the nearby May contract and down 20 to 29 points in other nearbys in early Wednesday trade. Futures posted Tuesday weakness, closing 44 to 56 points lower.

Cotton futures fell to their lowest level in five years after Trump touched off a global trade war with steep tariffs—particularly on big U.S. cotton buyers China, Vietnam and Pakistan.

Cotton price action is down 7 to 8 cents, with contracts 2 to 3 cents in the green. Futures closed with losses of 16 to 31 points across most contracts on Thursday. Crude oil futures fell back ...