THE RISE OF COTTON MILLS IN THE SOUTH
A DISSERTATION
Submitted to the Board of University Studies of The
Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with
the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
by
Broadus Mitchell
Baltimore, Maryland
1918
| Page | |
| Foreword | |
| Chapter I: | |
| The Background | 1-45 |
| Chapter II: | |
| The Background, continued | 45-94 |
| Chapter III: | |
| Conditions Precedent to the Erection of the Mills | 95-131 |
| Chapter IV: | |
| Capital | 132-181 |
| Chapter V: | |
| Financing the Mills | 181-225 |
| Chapter VI: | |
| Financing the Mills, continued | 226-271 |
| Vita | 272 |
These pages represent a partial exploitation of materials gathered with aview to their ultimate use in more extended form. Many phases of theproblem have been left entirely untreated, but the research upon thesesubjects has not been without indirect service in the present study. Inthe case of two chapters written midway of the investigation, in revisioncare has been taken to bring them into consonance with the indicationswhich developed from subsequent discoveries. It is hoped, therefore, thattheir lack is rather as to completeness than as to fidelity of temper.
Unless this presentation is entirely inadequate, in addition to the moreobjective economic forces, in the rise of cotton mills in the South, therewill appear the human elements that lie at the core of the development.
For assistance, my first thanks are due to Professor Jacob H. Hollanderand Professor George E. Barnett, of The Johns Hopkins University, who havecontributed in a hundred ways over the whole period of study, and to Dr.Nathaniel R. Whitney, formerly of The Johns Hopkins University and now ofthe Iowa State University, who helped form my original conception of theproblem. In the wider aspects of my study I have drawn upon the experienceand judgment of my father continuously. Acknowledgment is due Miss EllenRothe and Miss Ethel Hubbard, of the library staff of The Johns HopkinsUniversity; to the authorities of the library of the Peabody Institute ofBaltimore, and to the officers of the reading room of the Library ofCongress.
In two field investigation