The Social Science Pamphlets, Volume 2, Issue 21923 - Social sciences |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 21
Page 29
... plantations where tobacco , indigo , rice and cotton were raised made a large amount of cheap labor a necessity that the plantation owners would increase the number of their slaves . Slavery , the buying and selling of human beings was ...
... plantations where tobacco , indigo , rice and cotton were raised made a large amount of cheap labor a necessity that the plantation owners would increase the number of their slaves . Slavery , the buying and selling of human beings was ...
Page 169
... PLANTATIONS Here is an eye - witness account by a traveller in the cotton belt in the 1850s , which is fairly typical of life on the big plantations : " It was a first - rate plantation . On the highest ground stood a large and handsome ...
... PLANTATIONS Here is an eye - witness account by a traveller in the cotton belt in the 1850s , which is fairly typical of life on the big plantations : " It was a first - rate plantation . On the highest ground stood a large and handsome ...
Page 279
... plantation life and methods . " As stated , a Japanese laborer shipped by the Ewa plantation claims that he was assaulted by an overseer , who fractured his arm . The Jap , who has arrived recently and does not understand English , was ...
... plantation life and methods . " As stated , a Japanese laborer shipped by the Ewa plantation claims that he was assaulted by an overseer , who fractured his arm . The Jap , who has arrived recently and does not understand English , was ...
Contents
SECTION PAGE I What Happened in the Settled Parts of the Country as the Frontier Moved Westward_____ | 5 |
Industries in America During Colonial Times 16071790 | 11 |
From Pack Horse to Railroad_____ | 37 |
14 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
agricultural Baltimore banking became began best readers boats Boston brought build built canal capital cars cent century Chicago Chronicles of America Civil cloth coal colonies Copyright by Keystone corporation dollars eastern Eli Whitney England Erie Erie Canal factories farm farmers growth Haven houses hundred Ibid important increased Industrial Revolution interesting inventions inventor iron J. P. Morgan John Keystone View labor land Literary Digest living machinery Macmillan Company manufacturing merchants miles million mills Mississippi National North Ohio organization owners Pacific pamphlet pany Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pittsburg plantation planters profits railroads Railway refrigerator car River roads Robert Fulton Rockefeller Samuel Slater sewing machine ships slaves South Southern spinning Standard Oil steamboat steel story thousand tobacco town trade transcontinental railroad transportation unions United Virginia West western westward wheel workers Yale University Yale University Press York City