An Origin of The New South: The South Carolina Homespun Company, 1808-1815
- 1 January 1961
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Business History Review
- Vol. 35 (3) , 402-414
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3111477
Abstract
The effort to establish a cotton factory in South Carolina in 1808 was aborted by inexperience, lack of capital, and unfavorable economic circumstance, but the episode provides a few more bits of evidence to add to the fragmentary history of early textile manufacturing in America.Keywords
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- The History of South CarolinaThe American Historical Review, 1938