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The Movement of Goods in the Antebellum Economy

"In the years before the war, Southern ports were leading exporters of domestic produce."


The Union Navy's Blockade Reconsidered

David G. Surdam

© 1998 by David G. Surdam

Naval War College Review, Autumn 1998, Vol. LI, No. 4

[Non-Sequitur]

"In the years before the war, Southern ports were leading exporters of domestic produce."

True. But the claim is that imports were totally dependant on exports to pay for them and that doesn't seem to be the truth.