Thirty years a slave From bondage to freedom The institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter . SOCIAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SLAVERY. 109 and poplars which, in the spring, when the floodscome down, are overflowed for many miles back. Itwas found necessary to run embankments practicallyparallel with the current, in order to confine thewaters of the river in its channel. Memphis was andis the most important city of Tenessee, indeed, themost important between St. Louis and New Orleans,particularly from the commercial point of view. Cot-ton was the principal produ
Thirty years a slave From bondage to freedom The institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter . SOCIAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SLAVERY. 109 and poplars which, in the spring, when the floodscome down, are overflowed for many miles back. Itwas found necessary to run embankments practicallyparallel with the current, in order to confine thewaters of the river in its channel. Memphis was andis the most important city of Tenessee, indeed, themost important between St. Louis and New Orleans,particularly from the commercial point of view. Cot-ton was the principal product of the territory tribu-tary to it. The street running- along- the bluff wascalled Front Row, and was filled with stores and busi-ness houses. This street was the principal cottonmarket, and here the article which, in those days, waspersonified as the commercial king-, was boug-htand sold, and whence it was shipped, or stored, await-ing an advancing price. The completion of the Mem-phis and Charleston railroad was a g-reat event in thehistory of the city. It was termed the marriag-e ofthe Mississippi and the Atlantic, and
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