In a message dated 7/31/03 6:10:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The plantation owners were perpetually in debt, but the banks did not
directly own the plantations.
That is the contradiction. If I perpetually "owe you" you in fact own me. The question - from my
Melvin P. writes:
Any
impartial investigation of the plantation belt of the South after the
Civil Wall will reveal who owned what. Wall Street imperialism owned the
vast majority of the land, possessed the capital and political
will...
Melvin P.
Could you give some more details on the ownership
In a message dated 7/31/03 7:24:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Melvin P. writes:
Any impartial investigation of the plantation belt of the South after the Civil Wall will reveal who owned what. Wall Street imperialism owned the vast majority of the land, possessed the
No historian disputes that Yankee finance capital - imperialism or Wall
Street, took possession of the plantation system in the aftermath of the
Civil War.
Melvin P.
I think that the question was about ownership. My reading indicates that
the same class of people still owned the plantations, but
In a message dated 7/31/03 12:22:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think that the question was about ownership. My reading indicates that
the same class of people still owned the plantations, but adapted to the
new realities such as they were.
The banks owned the
The plantation owners were perpetually in debt, but the banks did not
directly own the plantations.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:51:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The banks owned the plantations.
Melvin P.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
