Unnamed Traders and Ship-Owners
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Unnamed Traders and Ship-Owners
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Unnamed Traders and Ship-Owners
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Transportation
Specific Job:
Maritime Trade
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Biography:
In his conversation with Cass about human, and specifically Southern history, Ike generalizes about the kinds of men who, according to him, were responsible for the Civil War. This entry refers to what he calls "the narrow fringe of traders and ship-owners still looking backward across the Atlantic and attached to the [American] continent only by their-counting houses" (273). He means the business men who made money from the slave and cotton trade with Africa and Europe.
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Group
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