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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Museums in Troup County, Georgia, People from Troup County, Georgia, West Point, Georgia, Manchester, Georgia, Hogansville, Georgia, LaGrange, Georgia, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Cowboy Jimmy Moore, Dialleo Burks, Sam Olajubutu, LaGrange High School, Walt Harris, Chips Moman, Gar Heard, James M. Sprayberry, U.S. Route 27 in Georgia, Tom Jarriel, Quentin McCord, Derek Smith, Elijah Kelley, Sergio Render, Howard Callaway, Troup County High School, Tyrone Poole, Dontavius Jackson, Fred Newman, LaGrange College, Bruce Thornton, Tray Blackmon, Hammett L. Bowen, Jr., Chick Donovan, Callaway High School, Collin Rodgers, West Georgia Technical College, LaGrange-Callaway Airport, James Thornton, Alfred Jenkins, Troup County School District, James M. Griggs, Jimmy Haynes, Jeff Calhoun, Bellevue, West Point Lake, John Whelchel, Battle of West Point, Steve Herndon, WLAG, Callaway Stadium, Nate Hill, Denatay Heard, Forest Clark Johnson, III, Murphy Lake, Broad Street Historic District. Excerpt: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (November 4, 1877 - January 21, 1934) was an American historian who studied the American antebellum South and slavery. Phillips concentrated on the large plantations that dominated the Southern economy, and he did not investigate the numerous small farmers who held few slaves. He concluded that plantation slavery produced great wealth, but was a dead end, economically, that left the South bypassed by the industrial revolution underway in the North. On the whole his assessment was that plantation slavery was not very profitable, had about reached its limits in 1860, and would probably have faded away without the American Civil War, which he considered needless conflict. He praised the entrepreneurship of plantation owners and denied they were brutal. Phillips argued that they provided adequate food, clothing, housing, ..
