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  1. Southern Cotton was essential to Britsh industry. The answer was blockade runners , starting from Bermuda. The profits were so great that one succseful run would pay for the ship outright. There are numerous stories of tricks and close encounters, including the use of cotton bales socked in Nitre put in the boilers and the saftey valves screwed down.
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