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To: Georgia Girl 2
Show me some evidence that any significant exports were being shipped out of Charleston or Savannah.

Rinky dink towns. New Orleans was the second busiest port in the US in the 1850s. By some estimates, it also had the largest cotton and slave markets in the country (Charleston and Washington DC also claimed the largest slave market -- the second busiest cotton port was Mobile, Alabama).

In 1840, New Orleans was the third largest city in the country after New York and Baltimore. The population more than doubled from 1830 to 1840. In 1850, it was the fifth largest (Philadelphia and Boston having crept in ahead of NOLA).

So I don't know what Charleston or Savannah were up to, but New Orleans was doing pretty well before the Civil War, and no Yankee tariff or shipping conspiracies kept it down.

352 posted on 01/22/2014 4:37:17 PM PST by x
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To: x

“In 1840, New Orleans was the third largest city in the country after New York and Baltimore. The population more than doubled from 1830 to 1840. In 1850, it was the fifth largest (Philadelphia and Boston having crept in ahead of NOLA).”

1840? 1850? Whats that got to do with the Civil War?

Show me evidence that 65% of all US exports in 1861 were not Soutern Cotton and not being shipped out of New York.


354 posted on 01/22/2014 4:45:32 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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