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Re: Southern Slavery Economics
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As with all things that depended upon location.

Obviously the economic status in Richmond, Virginia or New Orleans, or Charleston was quite different from say Austin, Texas and other frontier states. Even today what is the economic status quo of Philadelphia, Penn. compared to the backwoods of Appalachia, West Virginia just a relatively few miles distance apart?

The problem here is the assumption that all places given the same conditions develope at the same steady rate. That is not a true maxium. There were many other determining factors which influenced economic developement than whether or not the area in question was a slave culture or not. It fact the Northern industrial ccomplex was a cheaper slave system than the southern plantation. The Northern labor force were free yes but they had to obtain all their provender for themselfs and the company provided nothing but the salary, hence the economy sprang up to support the labor forces needs.

But on the other hand the same business consideration existed in the Slave plantation as exist today in any other business. Profits vs Overhead. Anytime you can reduce the overhead the more Profit you will made. The more profits you make the you can spend to improve your business or status. When you can obtain services outside of your business for less than you can produce them yourself you go with the lessor cost service. This is why jobs are automated and why they go overseas. It was the same on the Plantations also, which prompted business oppertunity outside of the plantation to grow.

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