What do these items have in common: rice, indigo, cotton, textiles and tires?
They're all products that South Carolina has used to turn cheap labor into high wealth for our state's evolving aristocracy. As the wealth bubbles created by each of the first four swelled and burst, the next took its place: Slaves tending rice gave way to slaves tending indigo, who gave way to slaves tending cotton,
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
WSJ praises South Carolina's factory system
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