James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow

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James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow (1820-1867) was an American publisher and statistician best known for his influential magazine DeBow's Review

A resident of New Orleans, De Bow used his magazine to advocate for the expansion of southern agriculture and commerce so that the southern economy could become independent of the North. He warned constantly of the South's "colonial" relationship with the North, one in which the South got the worse end. DeBow died of peritonitis contracted on a trip to visit his brother in New Jersey on February 27, 1867.