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Document 8b: Agricultural Production, 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
The authors of this book used data from official state and federal documents (circa 1850) to compare the condition of the slaveholding and non-slaveholding states as to territory, population, industry and wealth, education and intelligence, religious and moral advancement, and general progress.
This excerpt compares yearly agricultural production in Northern and Southern states.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Cultivation: The act of tilling the soil to make it ready for planting
Per Head: Per person
Text-Dependent Questions
Text-Dependent Questions
What conclusions does the author draw about the amount of agricultural land and its production value and value per person?
Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions
Why do you think the author was making this point? Refer to their argument in Document 8a for additional evidence.
How does the data support the commentator’s assertion that it “demonstrates beyond all doubt … that slavery, as an institution, viewed from whatever stand-point, is all that is implied by such terms as a cancer, plague-spot, a mildew, a curse ….”?
CitationThe North and the South: A Statistical View of the Condition of Free and Slave States. By Henry Chase, A.M. and Charles W. Sanborn, M.D. Compiled from Official Documents. Boston: Published by John P. Jewett & Co. 1856. Pg 39-41. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_North_and_the_South/VmwFAAAAQAAJ?hl=en
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