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Mechanizing the Cotton Harvest in the Nineteenth-Century South

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Heywood Fleisig
Heywood Fleisig
Affiliation:
Yale University
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Extract

A persistent problem in American economic history is the explanation of the failure of the South to mechanize cotton production. Summarily, the following argues that the failure to mechanize was due to a southern economic structure which operated to reduce the effectiveness of the factors in society conducive to invention and innovation.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 1965 , pp. 704 - 706
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1965

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References

1 Loring, F. W. and Atkinson, C. W., Cotton Culture and the South Considered with Reference to Emigration (Boston, 1869), Appendix HGoogle Scholar.

2 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Cost of Cotton Production and Profit per Acre, Bulletin No. 26 (Mar. 1893), p. 298Google Scholar.

3 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, The Mechanical Harvesting of Cotton, Bulletin No. 452 (Aug. 1932), pp. 38–42Google Scholar.

4 Ibid., Appendix.

5 Street, James H., New Revolution in the Cotton Economy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957), pp. 112, 117Google Scholar.

6 Ibid., p. 130.