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In contrast, unless more slaves were added to the US population by the addition of territory, as happened with Louisiana, Florida and Texas, the rate of increase of the enslaved population was about 23% per decade.
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1860/population/1860a-02.pdf
p. vii.
Therefore the section of the country that allowed slavery was steadily losing ground to that portion of the country that was expanding railroads and encouraging voluntary immigration.
And the railroads could produce the cash that created influence and in the northern states, the managers and the workers in the railroad industry voted.
The railroads were in most states by 1860 and they would eventually be in all states and all districts.
The railroads had a strong interest in expanding telegraph service, a growing economy, a unified currency not subject to complicated discounting, a transparent commercial law.
Its possible that the modern economy could have completely by passed the far south cotton 7 states. But its unlikely that people in the middle 8 states, those that permitted slavery, would have been content with the US economy moving up to industrialization and not have wanted the benefit of the increased standard of living it produced.
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1860/population/1860a-02.pdf
p. vii.
Therefore the section of the country that allowed slavery was steadily losing ground to that portion of the country that was expanding railroads and encouraging voluntary immigration.
And the railroads could produce the cash that created influence and in the northern states, the managers and the workers in the railroad industry voted.
The railroads were in most states by 1860 and they would eventually be in all states and all districts.
The railroads had a strong interest in expanding telegraph service, a growing economy, a unified currency not subject to complicated discounting, a transparent commercial law.
Its possible that the modern economy could have completely by passed the far south cotton 7 states. But its unlikely that people in the middle 8 states, those that permitted slavery, would have been content with the US economy moving up to industrialization and not have wanted the benefit of the increased standard of living it produced.
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