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Excerpt from Lancashire and Cheshire, Past and Present, Vol. 1: A History and a Description of the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester Forming the North-Western Division of England, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (1867)
Within the same period the cotton manufacture, the greatest of all branches of manufacturing industry, has increased at least threefold, so as now to require a yearly supply of more than one thousand millions of pounds of cotton for the employment of the mills and looms of the two Counties. In the latter part of this period the cotton manufacture has passed through a season of the severest trial, owing to the Civil War in America, and the sudden and violent breaking up of the system of slave labour in the cotton districts of that country. But it has survived the terrible trials of that period; it has succeeded in drawing supplies Of its raw material from numerous and distant countries; and it is freed from its dangerous dependence on 'a single source'of' supply, and on a description of labour which is rapidly disappearing before the progress of freedom and of justice. This great branch of industry has thus escaped from the principal perils which have long threatened its existence. The progress of this great change and its influence, both at home and abroad, will be carefully traced in this work, along with the history of the heroic patience with which the sufferings of the cotton district were borne, and of the noble generosity with which they were relieved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
