Slavery and American Economic Development EPUB
by Gavin Wright
Part of the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History series
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Through an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era.
He draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organization-the aspect that has dominated historical debates-and slavery as a set of property rights.
Slave-based commerce remained central to the eighteenth-century rise of the Atlantic economy, not because slave plantations were superior as a method of organizing production, but because slaves could be put to work on sugar plantations that could not have attracted free labor on economically viable terms.
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- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:LSU Press
- Publication Date:18/02/2013
- ISBN:9780807152768
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:LSU Press
- Publication Date:18/02/2013
- ISBN:9780807152768