To: Heyworth
Why didn't southern capital open their own factories? Indeed. Why didn't the South build their own fleet of trading ships rather than rely on the North for their shipping needs?
219 posted on
09/05/2006 3:05:32 PM PDT by
mac_truck
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To: mac_truck
For similar reasons that the north did not grow their own cotton.
220 posted on
09/05/2006 3:14:15 PM PDT by
Michael.SF.
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