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To: DiogenesLamp

“ Which were artificially inflated beyond the market norm because of laws forcing them to use the North’s shipping, banking, warehousing, insurances and other services.”

I know you claim that the Navigation Act of 1817 forced Southerns to use Northern shipping, which of course it did not, but where do you find clauses to force all the other stuff?


609 posted on 08/14/2021 12:55:03 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie
I know you claim that the Navigation Act of 1817 forced Southerns to use Northern shipping, which of course it did not, but where do you find clauses to force all the other stuff?

Some of it is inherent in the laws requiring the usage of Northern ships. The Northern shipping industries could set whatever rules they wanted, because you were forced to use their services. If they said you must insure the cargo through their insurance agents, you had to do it. If they said you must use warehouses in New York, you had to do it. If they said you must take out a loan from a bank in New York, you either did it, or you didn't get your product transported. Look up "Company Town" to get an idea how this system works in practice.

This is why doing away with the Navigation Act of 1817 was such a financial boon for the South. It took away the power to coerce them to use services at excessively high rates, and allowed them to not only use cheaper European services, but they could avoid the gouging to their bottom line that New York and Washington DC's cut represented.

It cut New York and Washington DC out of their trade deals and their profits.

Remember, 73% of all US Trade was from the South.

613 posted on 08/14/2021 1:06:42 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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