Risky Business: Winning & Losing in the Early American Economy, 1780-1850: Catalogue of an Exhibition Drawn from the Collections of The Library Company of Philadelphia |
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Page 48 - March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, shall be imposed on, and collected from all parts of the navigable communications between the great western and northern lakes, and the Atlantic ocean...
Page 6 - The Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire.
Page 36 - What a mistaken view do these men have of Northern laborers! They think that men are always to remain laborers here— but there is no such class. The man who labored for another last year, this year labors for himself, and next year he will hire others to labor for him.
Page 36 - ... awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself ; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This say its advocates, is free labor — the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all — gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.
Page 42 - Growth," in Glenn Porter, ed., Encyclopedia of American Economic History, 3 vols. (New York, 1980), 133-50; and Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, "US Economic Growth, 1783-1860," Research in Economic History, 8 (1983), 1-46.
Page 29 - Events so various and so important that might crowd and distinguish centuries, are, in our times, compressed within the compass of a single life.
Page 45 - Mortimer. A Grammar Illustrating the Principles and Practice of Trade and Commerce. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1810.
Page 5 - The government, said its framers, would protect and extend the mutual interests of citizens whose markets were linked to cooperation in a world of hostile nations. It would sanction a single currency, safeguard contracts and private property, standardize business practices, patent inventions, and naturalize immigrants.
Page 34 - While many northern states inched toward the abolition of slavery state by state, and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River, slavery itself did not disappear easily or quickly in the North.