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Title: New school history of the United States
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Holmes, George Frederick, 1820-1897
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Publisher: New York, University publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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fe not unfrequently seated on a pil-lion behind her husband. t The calculation was loose and unworthy of confidence. Bancroft concludes that the whole number of white inhabitants in all the thirteen colonies was, in 1774,about 2,100,000* oi blacks, about 500,000; the total population very nearly 2,600,000. ENGLISH COLONIES BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. 83 their commerce. In many northern harbors, shipbuilding wasenergetically prosecuted. Artisans of all kinds were in de-mand, and were amply remunerated. The restless and rovingbecame hunters and trappers, and pursued their game far infront of the settlements. The lumber business furnished oc-cupation to multitudes of wood-cutters. Some small manu-factures had been begun. Iron furnaces had been erected inVirginia and elsewhere. Manufacturers were grievously dis-couraged by the English Navigation Laws/ and by othermeasures of repression. 126. Agriculture was directed to the production ofdissimilar crops in the Northern and in the Southern prov-
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the people were affected by this diversity. In the North were small farms and small farmers. Theground was cleared and tilled, the crops harvested, and all 84 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, the operations of the field and of rustic industry were per-formed by the owners, their famihes, and their hired laborers. In the South were large plantations cultivated by slaves,whose rich owners lived in ease and luxurious indulgence.The planters were easily tempted into extravagance and dissi-pation. They were generous, but reckless ; hospitable, andinclined to out-door sports. The culture of the soil was slov-enly. Old fields were thrown out of use and left waste. Newlands were inclosed, for land was abundant, fertile, and cheap. In the North were raised the various crops of a cool andtemperate climate ; principally for home or neighborhoodconsumption. In the South, the staple productions—rice, in-digo, cotton, tobacco, Indian corn, and wheat—were cultivatedon a large scale, for the purpose

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