Industrial Development And Manufacturing In The Antebellum Gulf South: A Reevaluation

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In the aftermath of the Civil War, contemporary narratives about the American South pointed to the perceived lack of industrial development in the region to explain why the Confederacy succumbed to the Union. Even after the cliometric revolution of the 1970s, when historians first began applying statistical analysis to reexamine antebellum manufacturing output, the pervasive belief in the regionÆs backward-ness prompted many scholars to view slavery, not industry, as the economic engine of the South. In Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South, historian Michael S. Frawley engages a wide variety of sourcesùincluding United States census data, which many historians have underutilized when gauging economic growth in the prewar Southùto show how industrial development in the region has been systematically minimized by scholars. In doing so, Frawley reconsiders factors related to industrial production in the prewar South, such as the availability of natural resources, transportation, markets, labor, and capital. He contends that the Gulf South was far more industrialized and modern than suggested by census records, economic historians like Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss, and contemporary travel writers such as Frederick Law Olmsted. Frawley situates the prewar South firmly in a varied and widespread industrial context, contesting the assumption that slavery inhibited industry in the region and that this lack of economic diversity ultimately prevented the Confederacy from waging a successful war. Though southern manufacturing firms could not match the output of northern states, Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South proves that such entities had established themselves as vital forces in the southern economy on the eve of the Civil War.


  • | Author: Michael S. Frawley
  • | Publisher: Lsu Press
  • | Publication Date: May 08, 2019
  • | Number of Pages: 216 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover/History
  • | ISBN-10: 0807170682
  • | ISBN-13: 9780807170687
Author:
Michael S. Frawley
Publisher:
Lsu Press
Publication Date:
May 08, 2019
Number of pages:
216 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover/History
ISBN-10:
0807170682
ISBN-13:
9780807170687