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...Lectures on the Lower South. I. The Rise of the Cotton States. Mr. W. G. Brown. Sever...
...first lecture Mr. Brown will review briefly the history of the southernmost parts of the Union up to the time of the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and will discuss the civilization of the cotton states under the slavery regime. Particular attention will be given to the topics discussed and the reasoning employed in such books as Cairnes's "Slave Power" and Von Holst's "Constitutional History." It will be the lecturer's aim to make plain the effects of slavery and the plantation system on the people of the cotton states and the causes which gave these states the hege...
...Company. The set is an edition de luxe, bound in calf, and numbers twelve volumes. Each volume has stamped in gold on one side "Harvard University" and on the other "Phillips Brooks House." The frontispiece of the first volume is an excellent steel engraving of the author. Rev. John Cotton Brooks is the editor of the edition...
...American statistician gradually evolved the system of individual classification with the concentration method. For this method there is a classification of weekly wages and a determination of percentages of the number receiving those wages. When this concentration system is used in connection with one industry, as for instance, cotton goods manufacture, the greatest percentage of laborers is found to be employed on the lowest class of labor. When applied to all industries the concentration system shows the weight of numbers to be on a higher grade of labor. This form of table is now used in the United States...
...Ascendency of the Cotton States in the Union...