History of Milwaukee, city and county . ompany Building THE ERA OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS 217 been found, generally speaking, that in the South slavery and manufacturesexcluded each other. The South lived almost entirely by agricultural indus-tries, its capital was monopolized by agriculture. Manufacturing industry,says Von Hoist, did not accord with the longing for aristocratic leisurewhich must characterize the free population in a community which owes itsspecific industrial character to slave labor. Therefore the manufacturingindustries of the northern slates easily surpassed those of the so
History of Milwaukee, city and county . ompany Building THE ERA OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS 217 been found, generally speaking, that in the South slavery and manufacturesexcluded each other. The South lived almost entirely by agricultural indus-tries, its capital was monopolized by agriculture. Manufacturing industry,says Von Hoist, did not accord with the longing for aristocratic leisurewhich must characterize the free population in a community which owes itsspecific industrial character to slave labor. Therefore the manufacturingindustries of the northern slates easily surpassed those of the southern states,and this, indeed, was one of the determining factors in the greal (ivil war of1861-1865, which abundantly proved the superiority of the North in its ma-terial resources over the limited advantages possessed by the South in theprosecution of that unhappy war.* Even the importance of cotton, claimedto lie the king of agricultural productions, failed in the final test in comparison with th? food producing power of the THE FIRST sli: \u FLOUR MILLOriginal Site, South Water street. Now located on Virginia Street
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