Excerpt from The South in the Building of the Nation, Vol. 6 In 1865 industrial society scarcely existed in the South. The great loss of life and health by the whites in the war, the destruction Of the slave-labor system, the suffering and destitution which existed during the last years of the war and for several years after the surrender, the destruction of property dur ing the war, the loss of capital, the bankruptcy of the state and local governments - all these unfavorable conditions bore heavily upon the desolated country. 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.