INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Though the Old South was in the main agricultural, it was not entirely destitute of industrial skill.

The recent industrial development is really a revival, not a revolution, in some parts of the South.

In 1810, according to Tench Coxe's semi-official _Statement of Arts and Manufactures_, the value of the textile products of North Carolina was greater than that of Massachusetts.

Every farmhouse had spinning-wheels and one loom or several on which the women of the family spun yarn and wove cloth for the family wardrobe.

On the large plantations negro women produced much of the cloth for both slaves and family.