The New South

By 1880, Northern capital erected the modern textile industry in the New South by bringing factories to the cotton fields. The term "New South" arose because the region was allowing the North to industrialize the land. The men who took over the state governments in the South believed that they had "redeemed" the region from the Republicans. Redeemers in the New South celebrated the end of reconstruction and turned to the task of bringing industrialization and …

…treating them as colonies rather than as equals. The south produced more cotton than ever before in the end of the 1880's. Towns were growing throughout the region, industries had developed, and many black southerners had property. In the South slavery disappeared. However, quasi-slavery existed as the way of life for most African Americans in the south. Whites passed restrictive laws and blacks often chose to have as little to do with whites as possible.