Meet General GrantAmerikansk historie, USA's historie, amerikansk biografi om General Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1889, som først havde en militær karriere, bl.a. i Mexican War, og blev en berømt general i Nordstatshæren, Union Army, under den Amerikanske Borgerkrig, 1861-1865, og senere endte som amerikansk president. Beskriver hans liv, levnedsløb og militære og politiske karriere. Udkom i 1928. |
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Page 63
... cotton , that is , separating it from its seeds . There were a number of respectable gentlemen at Mrs. Greene's who all agreed that if a machine could be invented which would clean the cotton with expedition , it would be a great thing ...
... cotton , that is , separating it from its seeds . There were a number of respectable gentlemen at Mrs. Greene's who all agreed that if a machine could be invented which would clean the cotton with expedition , it would be a great thing ...
Page 64
... cotton gin the task of separating one pound of cotton from its seed required eight or ten hours of labor . A field - hand could raise about twenty - five hundred pounds of cotton in a season , on good land , but the separation of the ...
... cotton gin the task of separating one pound of cotton from its seed required eight or ten hours of labor . A field - hand could raise about twenty - five hundred pounds of cotton in a season , on good land , but the separation of the ...
Page 65
... cotton one of the great agricultural prod- ucts of the United States . It put fresh life into the languid in- stitution of slavery , perpetuated the slave system , and created a new Southern aristocracy . Without the cotton gin , there ...
... cotton one of the great agricultural prod- ucts of the United States . It put fresh life into the languid in- stitution of slavery , perpetuated the slave system , and created a new Southern aristocracy . Without the cotton gin , there ...
Page 66
... cotton - made fortunes the Southern idea of emancipating the negro slowly faded to a shadow . But what of the North ? Long before the Revolution it had been found that negroes were not worth their keep on Northern farms , and so slavery ...
... cotton - made fortunes the Southern idea of emancipating the negro slowly faded to a shadow . But what of the North ? Long before the Revolution it had been found that negroes were not worth their keep on Northern farms , and so slavery ...
Page 72
... cotton , and Texas seemed likely to become the greatest cotton - producing region in the world . There was the Monroe Doctrine , of course , but would it apply if an American nation should voluntarily put itself under the protection of ...
... cotton , and Texas seemed likely to become the greatest cotton - producing region in the world . There was the Monroe Doctrine , of course , but would it apply if an American nation should voluntarily put itself under the protection of ...
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