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The liberal deviseth liberal things , And by liberal things shall he stand . — Isaiah
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JUNIOR UNIVERSITY LIBRARY A 15623 Entered according to Act. 1857 . THE.
All things considered , if either the North or the South had the advantage , it was
the latter , In proof of this , let us introduce a few statistics , beginning with the
states of C In 1790 , when the first census was taken , New York contained
340,120 ...
... we find slavery gaining -a thing it has never yet been known to do we shall , as
a matter of course , see that the above amount is transferred to the credit of the
side to which it of right belongs . In making up these tables we have two objects
in ...
... country , so basely duped , so adroitly swindled , or so damnably outraged . It is
expected that the stupid and sequacious masses , the white victims of slavery ,
will believe , and , as a gen? Sot ESL please ne ola eral thing , they do believe.
I. little and unpretending as she is , does the same thing , with the exception of
Virginia . Look at the facts as presented in the tables , and let your own eyes ,
physical and intellectual , confirm you in the truth . And yet , forsooth , the slave ...
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A must read for anyone that wants to understand the economic and social implications of the Southern slave aristocracy.
A well researched and written review of the slave aristocracy that suppressed and exploited both black slaves and non-slave holding whites alike.
This book is critical to understanding why the Southern Gentry despised the North for "exploiting" the South and "stealing" the Souths' financial resources when in fact the increasingly inefficient and unproductive system of slave labor doomed the South to ever increasing reliance on Northern resources to maintain their facade of prosperity.
H. R. Helper explains the slave states downward spiral toward economic collapse that will ultimately drive 11 of the states to secede from the Union and start the Civil War
This book is an insight today into much of the Souths' ongoing struggle to join the rest of the United States in economic prosperity