Inlandskapital, Auslandskapital, Kriegstribute

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Identifikator:: 1823002579

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221686

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Liefmann, Robert http://d-nb.info/gnd/118779931

Title:: Inlandskapital, Auslandskapital, Kriegstribute

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Dt. Wiss. Buchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 130 S.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 2. Kapitel. Kapitalbildung und Löhne

Collection:: Economics Books

12 THE FREEDMEN'S SAVINGS BANK cised an unsettling influence for several years. The Negroes had reason for believing that the government would give them land with which to begin the free life. The use of Confederate property for the Negroes during and soon after the war, the widespread discussion of confisca- tory measures, and especially the action of General Sherman in dividing up the Sea Islands and the Georgia and South Carolina coasts among those who had followed the army, caused the freedmen to entertain the fixed belief that each family was to get “forty acres and a mule.” This pleasing idea, fostered to a considerable extent by the subordinates of the Freedmen’s Bureau, kept many from settling down to regular work, and prepared the way for swindlers who for years made a business of selling fraudulent titles to lands to thousands of Negroes. FAILURE OF NORTHERN PLANTERS Another blow to the prospects of the Negro was the general failure of the northern planters who came south during and immediately after the war expecting to make fortunes by raising cotton, rice, and sugar cane. The native planters had little or no capital, and plantation equip- ment and supplies were lacking. The free Negro distrusted the southern white, who in turn had little confidence in free Negro labor. Land was cheap, and a southern planter was glad to secure a northern partner or to sell his land to a northern capitalist. It was also thought that the Negro would work better for a northern em- 4 North American Review, Vol. 182, p. 721.

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