On 4/1/13 1:47 PM, David Shemano wrote: > The quote within a quote within a quote ends: 'What would New York > be without slavery?'" > > Well, slavery ended in 1865. According to Wikipedia, NYC's > population went from 813k in 1860 to 1.2m in 1880 to 3.4m in 1900. > Any dispute that NYC did pretty well in the Gilded Age? What am I to > make of the fact that NYC really took and thrived after the end of > slavery? > > David Shemano
I imagine that with the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the descent of African-Americans in the Deep South into a status that was free in name only, the Great American profit-making machine benefited the privileged everywhere, including NY. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
