Read the excerpt from Up Before Daybreak by D. Hopkinson. Mr. Brown was there on business, and the most important person he had come to see was Mr. Henderson, his cotton factor . A cotton factor was a person whose job combined many things . He was a banker and a bookkeep er. He also helped his clients do business . During Mr. Brown's four day stay in New Orleans , Mr. Henderson , his cotton Tactor would probably introduce Mr. Brown to oth er businessmen , such as cotton buyers . The men would discuss the price of cotton or tour cotton warehouses .

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Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia