HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sharecropping, Ida B. Wells
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Semester 2 lecture 1: wednesday january 11th, 2012. The historical term applied to the post-civil war american south. New in that there is no longer slavery. The south"s focus remains agricultural with cotton production as its primary unit. Blacks still provide the vast majority of the labour force. Sharecropping: amounted to a different type of servitude for slaves. Cotton production made up over half of the country"s exports. The civil war had crippled the south"s economy. Initially, the republican governments are the opponents of industrialization in the south: henry grady the atlanta constitution. Was the largest circulated newspaper in the south. Grady repeatedly editorialized in it encouragements for industrialization. The south now wants to introduce textile mills into its economy/industry. By the 1900 the south is leading in american textile production. Southern industrial achievements lagged behind northern industry because of their lack of experience with machines and their preference for black labour.
