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Originally Posted by ChiMIchael
I think at least part of it was that its garment industry clothed slaves.
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NYC
-handled cotton, sugar and tobacco exports from the South to Europe.
-Sold manufactured goods to Southern states
-Issued insurance policies on enslaved individuals
It’s also the context behind the Draft Riots that happen just a few weeks after the “Chicago on a Rampage” article.
As shown in the 2002 Gangs of New York film
https://youtu.be/mdwLxOK7xLc?si=DIaw3XPFiBOW-KeJ
Much of the United States blamed Chicago for escalating the Civil War, so there was a large audience for Chicago bashing in the media, and the economic growth was just salt on the wound.
Even Abraham Lincoln himself alluded to it in private discussions.
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“. . . The argument went on for some time, and finally was referred to Lincoln, who had been sitting silently listening. I shall never forget how he suddenly lifted his head and turned on us a black and frowning face.
“ ‘Gentlemen,’ he said in a voice full of bitterness, ‘after Boston, Chicago has been the chief instrument in bringing this war on the country. The Northwest has opposed the South as the New England has opposed the South. It is you who are largely responsible for making blood flow as it has. You called for war until we had it. You called for Emancipation, and I have given it to you. Whatever you have asked you have had. Now you come here begging to be let off from the call for men which I have made to carry out the war you have demanded. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have a right to expect better things of you. Go home, and raise your 6,000 extra men.
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