why was Mississipi rich pre-civil war?
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送交者: meiyou 于 2007-02-23, 16:29:20:
回答: ZT:鲜为人知的大屠杀 由 xinku 于 2007-02-23, 14:38:29:
wikipedia says that it was because slaves which standed for half of the population in the state at that time were counted as properties. - not for the northern states though.
After the civil war, most plantations went bankrupt because no slaves.
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