The Slave Power : Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs: Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved in the American Contest |
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... cultivation - the growing of cotton - which the complacent rea- soners whose theory we are considering choose to regard as the ordained function of the negro race . † * Olmsted's Slave States , pp . 131 , 462-3 . " The Southern parts of ...
... cultivation - the growing of cotton - which the complacent rea- soners whose theory we are considering choose to regard as the ordained function of the negro race . † * Olmsted's Slave States , pp . 131 , 462-3 . " The Southern parts of ...
Page 38
... cultivated for himself . " Such a country , for reasons which will presently be more fully indicated , was entirely unsuited to cultivation by slave labour ; but what I wish here to remark is , that this fact , important as it is with ...
... cultivated for himself . " Such a country , for reasons which will presently be more fully indicated , was entirely unsuited to cultivation by slave labour ; but what I wish here to remark is , that this fact , important as it is with ...
Page 40
... cultivated , tobacco becomes the sole staple , and tobacco is produced whatever be the state of the market , and whatever be the condition of the soil . This peculiarity of slave - labour , as we shall see , involves some very important ...
... cultivated , tobacco becomes the sole staple , and tobacco is produced whatever be the state of the market , and whatever be the condition of the soil . This peculiarity of slave - labour , as we shall see , involves some very important ...
Page 41
... cultivation of the one class , of which cotton may be taken as the type , requires for its efficient conduct that labour should be combined and organized * See North America , its Agriculture and Climate , by Robert Russell , chap ...
... cultivation of the one class , of which cotton may be taken as the type , requires for its efficient conduct that labour should be combined and organized * See North America , its Agriculture and Climate , by Robert Russell , chap ...
Page 42
... cultivation of which the labourers are dispersed over a wide surface , fail in this respect . We thus find that cotton , and the class of crops of which cotton may be taken as the type , favour the employment of slaves in the ...
... cultivation of which the labourers are dispersed over a wide surface , fail in this respect . We thus find that cotton , and the class of crops of which cotton may be taken as the type , favour the employment of slaves in the ...
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African slave trade aggressive agriculture American annexation anti-slavery become capital career carried cause character circumstances civilization colonization condition Confederacy confined Congress connexion consequences considerable Constitution contest cotton crops cultivation d'esclaves democratic districts Dred Scott economic effect emancipation employed established états exist fact favour Federal fertile force free labour freedom Fugitive Slave Law important increase independence industry influence institutions interests Kansas Kentucky land less Louisiana mean whites ment Mexico Missouri Compromise mode moral Morrill tariff nations natural necessity negro North America Northern object Olmsted Olmsted's once peasant peculiar persons planters political portion position present principle productive profitable progress proprietors purpose question race regarded result says secession slave labour Slave party slave population Slave Power slave societies slaveholders social soil South Southern Southern party success tariff tariff of 1832 territory Texas tion tobacco ultimate extinction Union United Virginia wealth whole