[Mortimer Snavely]

You may want to download the Helper volume so kindly linked by x. It's a classic.

[RLK]

Helper had written that slaves 'in nine cases out of ten, would be delighted with an opportunity to cut their master's throats'.[32] Helper's book combined with Brown's raid to create a 'state of siege' mentality in the South. Memories of Santo Domingo, where at the end of the eighteenth century the blacks revolted and exterminated the 'entire white population', came flooding back into Southern minds.

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I hadn't read Helper.

[RLK]

" Many poor white Southerners and most slaves were illiterate. The Slave power actively discouraged education amongst its poor white white community in order to preserve the status quo.

[RLK]

" Many poor white Southerners and most slaves were illiterate. The Slave power actively discouraged education amongst its poor white community in order to preserve the status quo."

[RLK]

In 1850, the products of manufactures, mining and the mechanic arts in Massachusetts, amounted to $151,137,145; those of North Carolina, to only $9,111,245. In 1856, the products of these industrial pursuits in Massachusetts had increased to something over $288,000,000, a sum more than twice the value of the entire cotton crop of all the Southern States!

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This is a very useful source of information that I wasn't previously aware existed.