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To: arrogantsob
Wrong again!

You can use ad hominem attacks, red herring diversions, and straw man arguments all you want. Nothing changes the facts:

.......................................................................South..............North

Per Capita income non-skilled...........................$150................$142

Sources: Fogel & Engerman (1860 Census), Wm. Parker

Per Capita wages non-skilled............................$150..............$142

U S Census, 1860

Daily wages by job type and location .............
Bricklayers/New Orleans and Charleston averaged $3.
Brick layers in Chicago averaged $1.50.

Carpenters in New Orleans/Charleston earned $2.50 a day.
Carpenters in Chicago earned $1.50.

General laborers in these Southern cities earned $1.25.
General laborers in the North earned $.75.

Source: United States Senate testimony by Johnson, 1858

Per Capita income wealthiest individuals........$3978..............2,040

Census archive, University of Virginia, 1860

437 posted on 08/23/2012 3:00:20 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: PeaRidge

The numbers you posted do not make this claim. I replicated the significant numbers you posted. Per capita income in the South $103. Per capita income in the North $128. These aren’t MY numbers but YOUR numbers.

BTW Slaver Senatorial testimony is hardly worth the sound it made. And you have to be able to interpret what the numbers say. This you are incapable of doing as your repeated mistakes regarding each statistic show.

Everyone knows there were extremely rich Slavers but that tiny group is overwhelmed by the huge swathes of extreme poverty in the South. Areas where literacy was uncommon and which were basically outside the monetary economy.

No wonder you defend the Slaverocracy you don’t know anything about it.

BTW the Southern wage rates for slaves hired out was NOT as high as you believe.


438 posted on 08/23/2012 9:12:09 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Obama MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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