The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of the Public Works ActSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1865 - Всего страниц: 350 |
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... of the Cotton States of America . The natives of Lancashire are wont to boast the purity of their origin as true Anglo - Britons , and some carry this very pardonable pride so far as to assert the same COTTON FAMINE . 5.
... of the Cotton States of America . The natives of Lancashire are wont to boast the purity of their origin as true Anglo - Britons , and some carry this very pardonable pride so far as to assert the same COTTON FAMINE . 5.
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... America has been to Europe , Lancashire has been to England - the great drain for surplus population . For nearly a century she has been offering to the working classes such reward for their labour as it was impossible to obtain ...
... America has been to Europe , Lancashire has been to England - the great drain for surplus population . For nearly a century she has been offering to the working classes such reward for their labour as it was impossible to obtain ...
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... American , Upland Georgia , ' ' Middling Orleans , ' ' Boweds , ' - so called from its being cleaned with a bow - string , but the last , and least valued , is the cotton of India , generally termed ' Surat , ' of which the principal ...
... American , Upland Georgia , ' ' Middling Orleans , ' ' Boweds , ' - so called from its being cleaned with a bow - string , but the last , and least valued , is the cotton of India , generally termed ' Surat , ' of which the principal ...
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... American this is cent . , and in Surat at 25 per cent . the attentions of these rotating flyers , the cotton is carried onwards , and issues from between two rollers in a flat flap , ' generally two feet wide by half an inch thick , and ...
... American this is cent . , and in Surat at 25 per cent . the attentions of these rotating flyers , the cotton is carried onwards , and issues from between two rollers in a flat flap , ' generally two feet wide by half an inch thick , and ...
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... American , and Russian wars , -had not railways and telegraphs their part and lot in this century , surely it would be known as the Cotton Age . This year 1860 was the ' annus mirabilis ' of King Cotton . In this year his dependents ...
... American , and Russian wars , -had not railways and telegraphs their part and lot in this century , surely it would be known as the Cotton Age . This year 1860 was the ' annus mirabilis ' of King Cotton . In this year his dependents ...
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American amount Ashton Ashton-under-Lyne assistance authority bales Blackburn boards of guardians capital cent Central Executive Committee Central Relief Committee charitable clothing condition considerable cotton districts Cotton Famine cotton manufacture cotton supply cotton trade demand difficulty distress duty emigration employment England English equal estimated expenditure extent fact factory facturers Farnall Glossop Government hands Haslingden honour improvement increase India interest labour Lancashire land large number less Liverpool loans Lord Lord Derby machinery Manchester Mansion House Committee manufac manufacturing districts ment mills months Oldham operatives outdoor outdoor relief parish persons Poor Law Board poor-rates population possessed post 8vo pound Preston production profits rate of relief rate-in-aid rateable value ratepayers raw material Ready received relief funds Rochdale shillings spindles Staleybridge Stockport subscriptions suffering sufficient Surat tion towns township unemployed Union Relief Aid Villiers wages week Wigan yarn
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