[BroJoeK]

x: "The quotes about half-way down show how little interest Southern planters had in industrializing.
That's not to say that there were no factories in the old South, but the culture didn't encourage it the way it did in the North."

Thanks, I'll try to read it but am put-off by the opening paragraphs suggesting its a big anti-capitalist screed.
Not much interested in that, maybe our Lost Causers would like it?

[x]

Thanks, I'll try to read it but am put-off by the opening paragraphs suggesting its a big anti-capitalist screed.

Baptist's book is. Guelzo's review isn't. He does a good job tearing down Baptist's arguments about the centrality of slavery to the US economy.