Excerpt from Magazine of Western History, Vol. 5: November, 1886-April, 1887And it so turned out that the north was freedom, the south slavery. That everybody knows but few realize what the words mean. They mean far more than that the south raised cotton while the north raised corn, far more than that the south bought her laborers, while the north hired hers, for there were certain powerful tendencies in freedom and in slavery that wrought out the car dinal features of the two great societies.Some of the features of the south will well repay our study.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.