Northerner George Fitzhugh's Response To Southerner Hinton Rowan

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Since the division of America into its Northern and Southern territories, America was in a feud with its self over which side was superior. This feud carried itself over to the economic stability of each territory. Northerner Hinton Rowan once wrote, “the South bears nothing like even a respectable approximation to the North in navigation, commerce, or manufactures, and that, contrary to the opinion entertained by ninety-nine hundredths of her people, she is far behind the free states in the only thing of which she has ever dared to boast- agriculture.” In response to Rowan, Southerner George Fitzhugh claimed that southern society was not as far behind as the North believed. Fitzhugh praised Southern society by claiming, “Few of our

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