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Slavery and American Economic Development /
Through an original analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents a fresh look a the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. Wright draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organization (the aspect that has dominated historical debates)...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge, La. :
Louisiana State University Press,
2006
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| Colección: | Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Through an original analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents a fresh look a the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. Wright 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. Slaves could be purchased and carried to any location where slavery was legal; they could be assigned to any task regardless of gender or age; they could be punished for disobedience, with no effective recourse to the law; they could be accumulated as a form of wealth; they could be sold or bequeathed Wright argues that slave-based commerce was 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"--Book jacket. |
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| Notas: | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (176 pages): ill., maps, digital file. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-151) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807152751 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |