" Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a familiar subject that manages to seem fresh and …
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive …
This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American …
P Daniel - The Journal of American History, 1979 - JSTOR
The shock of emancipation, coming as it did during an unsuccessful war, hard-ened the hearts of southern whites; defeated, they were unvanquished. From nearly every street …
A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the …
G Wright - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022 - aeaweb.org
The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in the acceleration of US economic growth in the nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists …
S Rockman - Journal of the Civil War Era, 2012 - journalofthecivilwarera.org
The relationship of slavery and capitalism looms over nineteenth-century historiography. Scholars still debate how to label slaveholders who presented themselves as market-averse …
Was slavery capitalist? For today's historians the question can evoke musty, long-winded debates from the 1970s. Yet in the last year three books by prominent scholars have …
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