The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It

Name: The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It
Author: Helper, Hinton Rowan

Helper, Hinton Rowan

Slavery -- United States

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      States.    |    Value of   | Val. of Animals | Cash Val. of Farms,
                 |  Live Stock.  |   Slaughtered.  |  Farm. Imp. & Mac.
  ---------------|---------------|-----------------|--------------------
  Alabama        |  $21,690,112  |   $4,823,485    |     $69,448,887
  Arkansas       |    6,647,969  |    1,163,313    |      16,866,541
  Delaware       |    1,849,281  |      373,665    |      19,390,310
  Florida        |    2,880,058  |      514,685    |       6,981,904
  Georgia        |   25,728,416  |    6,339,762    |     101,647,595
  Kentucky       |   29,661,436  |    6,462,598    |     160,190,299
  Louisiana      |   11,152,275  |    1,458,990    |      87,391,336
  Maryland       |    7,997,634  |    1,954,800    |      89,641,988
  Mississippi    |   19,403,662  |    3,636,582    |      60,501,561
  Missouri       |   19,887,580  |    3,367,106    |      67,207,068
  North Carolina |   17,717,647  |    5,767,866    |      71,823,298
  South Carolina |   15,060,015  |    3,502,637    |      86,568,038
  Tennessee      |   29,978,016  |    6,401,765    |     103,211,422
  Texas          |   10,412,927  |    1,116,137    |      18,701,712
  Virginia       |   33,656,659  |    7,502,986    |     223,423,315
                 |---------------|-----------------|--------------------
                 | $253,723,687  |  $54,388,377    |  $1,183,995,274

RECAPITULATION--FREE STATES.

  Value of live Stock                                  $286,376,541
  Value of Animals slaughtered                           56,990,237
  Value of Farms, Farming-Implements and Machinery    2,233,058,619
                                                      --------------
                                                      $2,576,425,397

RECAPITULATION--SLATE STATES.

  Value of Live Stock                                   $253,723,687
  Value of Animals slaughtered                            54,388,377
  Value of Farms, Farming Implements and Machinery     1,183,995,274
                                                      --------------
                                                      $1,492,107,338

DIFFERENCE IN VALUE--FARMS AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

  Free States                                         $2,576,425,397
  Slave States                                         1,492,107,338
                                                      --------------
  Balance in favor of the Free States                 $1,084,318,059

By adding to this last balance in favor of the free States the differences
in value which we found in their favor in our account of the
bushel-and-pound-measure products, we shall have a very correct idea of
the extent to which the undivided agricultural interests of the free
States preponderate over those of the slave States. Let us add the
differences together, and see what will be the result.

BALANCES--ALL IN FAVOR OF THE NORTH.

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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It

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