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A good look at the economy of the South prior to the Civil War. Read a good explanation of how the use of slave labor impeded technological innovation and a lack of urban development. See how transportion improvements and good public education were affected by a lack of necessary tax revenue.
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concentration of land ownership, concentration of slave ownership, high personal debt, impact of slavery on the southern economy, primitive transportation network, slave-based agriculture, wealth inequality, widespread illiteracy, agricultural change in the south, deep south, digital history, the south's economy, agricultural change in the south (1790-1860)
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