It was not a single law, it was an endless series of them.
I did the original searches about ten years ago. I originally found the facts in a series of books and on line, including the U.S. Congressional Record of the period. I did not feel it necessary to save the links, because if I could find the data on line, anyone else also can.
And of course, I never anticipated that this bogus transcendental issue would resurface after the expenditure of a trillion$ to ameliorate (exacerbate?) the issue...
Nobody’s asking you to produce an endless series of laws prohibiting southerners from industrializing. One or two of them will be fine.
I’ve repeatedly seen CSA apologists claim there were exorbitant tariffs on exportation of cotton, when of course there were never any.
What you are probably thinking of is protective tariffs on importation of machinery. But of course any northern firm that needed such machinery faced exactly the same increased costs, just as an Iowa farmer faced exactly the same tariffs as an Alabama planter.
The plain and simple truth is that nothing stopped southerners from building industries.
A major proponent of their doing so was De Bows Review, published in New Orleans. You can search their archives, I suspect, without finding a single reference to federal laws prohibiting southerners from creating industries.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/browse.journals/debo.html
Interesting.
I’ve studied the Civil War for a number of years and have a fairly healthy assembled library but I’ve never encountered any reference to any prohibition against any commerce in any region - except perhaps the bootleg distillery business.
One would think that one could fond some reference - any reference - to it if it were such a prominent thing.