Item #92840 The Louisiana Sugar Report with an Appendix [for] 1871-1872. L. Bouchereau.
The Louisiana Sugar Report with an Appendix [for] 1871-1872

The Louisiana Sugar Report with an Appendix [for] 1871-1872

New Orleans: Pelican Book and Job Printing Office, 1872. Paperback. xvi,74p. plus (28)p. adverts. Softcover in original partial yellow wrapper. 23 cm. Lacks back cover (and possibly one or more unnumbered leaves of advertisements since we don't know how many of pages of advertisements should be present at the end). 2 small worn holes though all pages. Some cover soil and wear. An annual publication full of data and detail on the annual sugar crop and showing, in toto and farm by farm, a general large decline in sugar production from a decade earlier (1861-62). On page ix is a general comment about labor, including the following: "Negro labor is becoming more and more scarce, trifling and unreliable, even at the highest wages paid. The old men only are found working on plantations, the young and best hands having settled in villages or cities, and the women having entirely withdrawn from the fields. Were it not for the carpet-baggers, who depend upon the negro vote for their advancement, and who go from plantation to plantation preaching to them not only politics and a false philanthropy, but also hostility to their best friends and employers the negro would still be the best laborers for Louisiana." Good. Item #92840

Price: $185.00

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