Discover how a book in 1857 shook the South by proposing a radical idea for economic growth!
TIL: In 1857 a book analyzed census data to demonstrate that free states had better rates of economic growth than slave states & argued the economic prospects of poor Southern whites would improve if the South abolished slavery. Southern states reacted by hanging people for being in possession of it
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