The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States: Embracing a View of Their Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Internal Improvements, Slave and Free Labor, Slavery Institutions, Products, Etc., of the South : Together with Historical and Statistical Sketches of the Different States and Cities of the Union : Statistics of the United States Commerce and Manufactures, from the Earliest Periods, Compared with Other Leading Powers : the Results of the Different Census Returns Since 1790, and Returns of the Census of 1850, on Population, Agriculture and General Industry, Etc. : with an Appendix, Volume 2Office of De Bow's review, 1852 - Industries |
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... BRITAIN - Their Progress in Cotton , Wool , Flax and Linen , Silk , Etc , with Productions and Persons Employed .. NEW ORLEANS ... Custom - House Revenues since 1801 . 42 Vital Statistics of ... 46 66 Imports from the Interior , from ...
... BRITAIN - Their Progress in Cotton , Wool , Flax and Linen , Silk , Etc , with Productions and Persons Employed .. NEW ORLEANS ... Custom - House Revenues since 1801 . 42 Vital Statistics of ... 46 66 Imports from the Interior , from ...
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... Britain , crushed and settlements greatly extended and population increased , expanding into the central basin . " * These estimates of Mr. Darby in relation to Iowa and Wisconsin are greatly short of the reality . The census of ...
... Britain , crushed and settlements greatly extended and population increased , expanding into the central basin . " * These estimates of Mr. Darby in relation to Iowa and Wisconsin are greatly short of the reality . The census of ...
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... Britain's and France's possessions acquired by Spain , was the middle line of the Mississippi river down to the Manchac ; thence along said bayou and Amité river to Lake Maurepas ; thence through Maurepas , Pontchartrain and Borgue , to ...
... Britain's and France's possessions acquired by Spain , was the middle line of the Mississippi river down to the Manchac ; thence along said bayou and Amité river to Lake Maurepas ; thence through Maurepas , Pontchartrain and Borgue , to ...
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... Britain , the inhumanity of the English government to the After the extension of the British authority French inhabitants of a portion of the terri- in 1765 , and until the revolt of the American tory ceded to her by France drove them ...
... Britain , the inhumanity of the English government to the After the extension of the British authority French inhabitants of a portion of the terri- in 1765 , and until the revolt of the American tory ceded to her by France drove them ...
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... Britain , disliking the appellation of " British tories , " are said to have retired from the new states , and to have emigrated to the region between the Yazoo and Baton Rouge ; the inhabitants of which took no part in the hos tilities ...
... Britain , disliking the appellation of " British tories , " are said to have retired from the new states , and to have emigrated to the region between the Yazoo and Baton Rouge ; the inhabitants of which took no part in the hos tilities ...
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