Economics and Political Connections between Lowell and Southern States
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The letters, books, and statistics included in this collection show how Lowell and other northern states were economically dependent upon slave-holding states and vice versa. The documents also show how Massachusetts politicians and businessmen supported maintaining the institution of slavery in southern states to keep the union together and avoid a civil war.

How and why did sectional economic and political interests concerning slavery divide the nation politically and how did Lowellians respond?

Economics and Political Connections between Lowell and Southern States
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Document 5: Letter from Senator John C. Calhoun to Abbott Lawrence on Tariffs, May 13, 1845

Document 6: Letter from Amos Adams Lawrence to William Lloyd Garrison on Fugitive Slave Act, February 16, 1851

Document 7: “Influence of Slavery on Invention,” The Liberator, January 28, 1853

Document 8a: Introduction to The North and The South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and Slave States, 1856

Document 8b: Agricultural Production, The North and The South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and Slave States, 1856

Document 8c: Manufacturing Production, The North and The South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and Slave States, 1856

Document 9: The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It, Hinton Rowan Helper, 1857

Document 10: Letter from Nathan Appleton to the Hon. Wm. C. Rives of Virginia on Slavery and the Union, 1860

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Economics and Political Connections between Lowell and Southern StatesDocuments

Document 5: Letter from Senator John C. Calhoun to Abbott Lawrence on Tariffs, May 13, 1845

Document 6: Letter from Amos Adams Lawrence to William Lloyd Garrison on Fugitive Slave Act, February 16, 1851

Document 7: “Influence of Slavery on Invention,” The Liberator, January 28, 1853

Document 8a: Introduction to The North and The South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and Slave States, 1856

Document 8b: Agricultural Production, The North and The South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and Slave States, 1856

Document 8c: Manufacturing Production, The North and The South: A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and Slave States, 1856

Document 9: The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It, Hinton Rowan Helper, 1857

Document 10: Letter from Nathan Appleton to the Hon. Wm. C. Rives of Virginia on Slavery and the Union, 1860

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Economics and Political Connections between Lowell and Southern States
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