Thanks Don..youre 1000% correct, everyone should read this article. Im afraid very few will bother and even fewer will deign comment and that will be shameful. Im in your debt, sir, because I had never thought I of this in this way. Thank you....In this respect, the basic infrastructure of energy distribution and exploitation in the plantation South was not so different from feudal Europe or ancient Egypt. During the first half of the nineteenth century, coal, whale oil, pneumatic power and all manner of mechanization penetrated the more urbanized North, while the South remained largely mired in the pre-industrial age. In 1850, only 14 percent of the nations canal mileage and 26 percent of its railroad mileage ran through slave states, and the industrial output of the entire region was only one-third that of Massachusetts alone.
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