HIS271Y1 Lecture : The New South and the Far West
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Focus on agriculture, a little bit of industrializationdoesn"t take so well. Blacks still provided most of the labour in the agricultural, not really wage laborers. System is not really all that different, socially and politically. Some talk of civil rights, not taken very well by the whites. New south is very poor, civil war had wiped out most if the souths capital, crippled the plantation economy, Per capita income declines by one third between 1860 and During the civil war blockades on cotton force the trade allies to look towards egypt and india. Henry grady- news paper the atlanta constitution, sold adds and tried to prod southerners into industry, have an abundant raw materials and a cheap labour source, thought that the south could go head to head with the northwrong. Labour source, the blacks still miffed about slavery, whites a little nervous.
