New York Convention: Report on the Production and Manufacture of Cotton
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Report of the cotton committee of the New-York Convention of the Friends of American Industry, dated Boston, Feb. 11, 1832, chaired by P. T. Jackson. It argues for continued tariff protection of American cotton manufacture, comparing U.S. and British cotton consumption, prices and growth, and discussing the female mill workforce, savings banks and schooling. Statistical statements cover cotton mills by state, machine shops, calico printeries, sheeting costs and prices 1817-1831, and bleacheries.
- Type
- Other
- Date
- 1832
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 20
- Archive notes
- Scanned from micro-fiche
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