Here we go again.
The navigation act of 1817. The Warehousing act.
This was the result. Vast bulk of all export cargo left southern ports. Virtually all the import cargo came into New York.
“The US laws had been jiggered so that New York businessmen controlled the vast bulk of the money from Southern export products”
Which laws would those have been?
Here we go again.
The navigation act of 1817. The Warehousing act.
This was the result. Vast bulk of all export cargo left southern ports. Virtually all the import cargo came into New York.