The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864: Devoted To Literature And National PolicyVarious
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864: Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Whole additional value of all
the Slave States, whether farm
lands or unoccupied, if worth
as much per acre as those of
the Free States,
$5,859,246,616.
Total value of products of the
Slave States in 1859, if equal
per capita to those of the
Free States, $2,653,631,032.
Deduct actual products of
1859, $1,140,000,000.
Absolute increase of 1859, if
Free States $1,513,631,032.
That is, the _additional_
value of the actual products
of the Slave States, caused by
emancipation, $1,513,631,032.
Total value of all the property, real and Ditto, of all the Slave
personal, of the Free States in 1860, States, including slaves,
$5,225,307,034. 852,081,081.
$10,
Annual gross profit of capital, 39 per cent. 22 per cent.
If we could add the annual
earnings of commerce (not
included in the Census
s T Tables), the yearly product
of the Free States per capita
would be almost triple that of
the Slave States, the commerce
of New York alone being nearly
equal to that of the entire
South.
Total agricultural product of Free States
in 1859, $2,527,676,000 $862,324,000 (Slave States).
Agricultural product of Free States per Ditto of Slave States per capita
capita in 1859, $131.48 in 1859, $70.56
Ditto, per acre in 1859, improved and
unimproved lands, $15.65 $3.58
Ditto, per acre, improved lands, $28.68 $11.55
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