post hoc ergo propter hoc
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:47 AM, David Shemano <[email protected]>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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Louis Proyect > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 11:06 AM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Capitalism and slavery > > On 3/31/13 1:59 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > > The lack of economic connection between the North and South > > "In the years just before the Civil War, it was customary for > anti-slavery writers and speakers to refer to New York City as 'the > prolongation of the South' where 'ten thousand cords of interests are > linked with the Southern Slaveholder.' If, by some magic, one of the > countless visitors to the 'World of Tomorrow' had suddenly been > transported back to the New York World's Fair of 1853, he would have had > no difficulty in discovering the reasons for these remarks. Had he > arrived in the city late in June or early in July, he would have noticed > that the lobbies of the Astor, St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue, St. Denis, > Clarendon, and Metropolitan hotels were thronged with Southern merchants > and planters. The pages of the morning and evening newspapers, he would > have observed, were filled with advertisements addressed to these > Southerners, urging them to visit this or that store, to inspect the > latest assortments of dry goods, hardware, boots and shoes, and other > types of merchandise... > > > "Had the visitor remained in the city until September, he would have > seen the daily departures of packets for the South, burdened with huge > cargoes of dry goods, boots and shoes, hardware, clothing, liquors and > even fruits, butter, and cheese. The same vessels, he would have > noticed, soon returned to New York, this time loaded with cotton, > tobacco, tar, resin, turpentine, wheat, pork and molasses. By the time > our visitor was ready to return to the Twentieth Century, he should have > been quite ready to agree that New York was 'almost as dependent upon > Southern slavery as Charleston itself.' Perhaps he might even have > agreed with James Dunmore De Bow, who said in reply to a query by the > London Times, asking, 'What would New York be without slavery?'" > > --Philip Foner, "Business and Slavery: The New York Merchants and the > Irrepressible Conflict" > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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