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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [qb] Saharans were not dependent on "Sudanese" for iron implements because they had their own local castes of iron workers. Even if there were no local iron workers why would Saharans be dependent on "Sudanese" for iron implements? Such could be procured from littoral North Africa, and elsewhere, just as other items were.[/qb][/QUOTE]I try to address such questions before they are even asked, and in fact I have already addressed this. This is why I brought up Haiti and rice, this is why I brought up the gold Coast and gold, why did the Americans buy British clothes when they could have gotten clothes from elsewhere? Better yet why did the southern United States trade with Brittan and why was there a bloody civil war over tariffs? The United States Civil War was very bloody and involved a great deal of hatred all revolving around tariffs “History of domestic and foreign commerce of the United States, Volumes 1-2” http://books.google.com/books?id=NDUaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA126&dq=#v=onepage&q=&f=false [QUOTE][b]Again, Great Britain was developing in industry more rapidly than was the continent of Europe, and hence was not only a better market for exported foods but was also able better to supply America with the manufactures which the people of the United States required.[/b] When the British monopoly of American trade was terminated by the Revolution and the staple articles of export from America were no longer "enumerated," but were free to go to any market in the world, [b]there proved to be little demand for the articles outside of Great Britain, where they had previously been sold…..[/b] …..One other reason that may be noted as in part accounting for the control of American trade by Great Britain after the Revolution was that many, [b]if not most, of the staple articles of manufactures desired by American buyers were made better in Great Britain and sold more cheaply there than in continental Europe.[/b] As an illustration of this, Lord Sheffield cites the fact that "when France granted a sum of money to Congress for clothing the American troops, Mr. Laurens, Jr., was employed to provide it; but instead of laying out the money in France he went to Holland [b]and bought English cloths and sent them to America."[/b][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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