The
Antebellum
Plantation South
Yeoman Farms
-Subsistence Farming
-Hogs
-Open Range
Plantations
-Cotton
-Corn
Profitability
-U.B. Phillips (1918, 1927)
-Lewis Gray (1934)
-Thomas Govan (1942)
-Kenneth Stampp (1956)
-Alfred H. Conrad & John R. Meyer (1959)
Regional Income
-Commodity Output Per Capita (1860)
-Northeast = $78
-Northwest = $64
-South = $77
Healthy Economy?
-Annual Increase in Demand for Cotton
-1830-1860 =
5.0%
-1865-1895 =
1.5%
Antebellum Southern Industry
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Growth of Cotton and Slaves
Cotton Exports, 1800-1860
Plantation Layout
Slaves, 1790
Slaves, 1820
Slaves, 1860
Cotton Production, 1820-1860 |