THE INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES, ETC., OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STATES...IN THREE VOLUMES [VOL. III only]

Book Description

New Orleans: Published at: the Office of De Bow's. Review, 1853.. 584,x,[2] pp. . Title continues: 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. First edition. Original ornately blindstamped cloth, light scattered foxing. A very good copy of volume three, [S-Z]. The most important source of its kind on United States commerce, industry, agriculture, labor, etc. It was compiled by the superintendent of the U.S. census and leading political economists of the era. This volume covers [S-Z], so includes: Southern Industry, Slaves, Slave Trade, South Carolina, Savannah, Steamships, Sugar, Texas, Tobacco, Turpentine, United States, Virginia, Wisconsin, West India Islands, etc. HOWES D-185. .

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