Lords of the Lash and Lords of the Loom

John Hartwell

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In 1848, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts (later the victim of the notorious caning incident), decried before the senate “an unhallowed union ... between two remote sections: between the cotton-planters and flesh-mongers of Louisiana and Mississippi and the cotton-spinners and traffickers of New England, — between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom.” The following article from the Westerly (Rhode Island) Sun, makes for an interesting summary of the situation:

http://www.thewesterlysun.com/news/...cle_49d98ca0-6b34-11e1-b9ae-0019bb2963f4.html

This, by the way, is part of a long series of articles on R.I. and the Civil War published in The Sun.

The principal books on the subject are: Lords of the Loom, the cotton Whigs and the coming of the Civil War, by T.H.O'Connor, and Cotton versus Conscience: Mass. Whig politics and southwestern expansion, 1843-48, by K.J.Brauer. Some enlightening reviews appear at:


http://journals.cambridge.org/actio...&previous=true&jid=BHR&volumeId=43&issueId=03


and

http://ojs.libraries.psu.edu/index.php/phj/article/view/23441/23210

I expect that many of those with particular interest in the economic causes of the war, will find much food for thought here.

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