cotton-shippers

Updated: May 25, 2025

At this season Charleston is dull to a proverb; most of the planters, with their families, being in the country, and the rest preparing to follow; the city is, therefore, nearly abandoned to the cotton-shippers; and so it will remain until the month of February, when the race-meeting draws the whole State together; and, for a period of four or five weeks, few places, as I learn, can be more lively or more sociable.

Tyrone Power - Impressions of America: During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.