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Slavery and American Economic Development (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Gavin Wright (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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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    978-0807131831
  2. Edition
    1st
  3. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    LSU Press
  5. Publication date
    February 18, 2013
  6. Part of series
    Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
  7. Language
    English
  8. File size
    2066 KB
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"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 new." -- Charles B. Dew ― Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"A stunning reinterpretation of southern economic history and what is perhaps the most important book in the field since Time on the Cross. . . . I frequently found myself forced to rethink long-held positions." -- Russell R. Menard ― Civil War History

About the Author

Gavin Wright is William Robertson Coe Professor in American Economic History at Stanford University and the author of The Political Economy of the Cotton South and Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War, winner of the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award of the Southern Historical Association. He served as president of the Economic History Association and the Agricultural History Society.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B119JHC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press; 1st edition (February 18, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 18, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2066 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

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Heather Logan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
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Marie C. Duggan
5.0 out of 5 stars Slim Volume
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2013
A slim volume invites the reader to sit down quietly and consider. While we tend to think of solid property rights as fostering growth of the middle class, this book argues that property rights in slaves had the pernicious effect of giving slave-owning families economic incentive to oppose emancipation. It's a thoughtful book which asks the reader to consider new ways of looking at the issue. It's also a book one can read over and over and still find stimulating.
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melvin koznoski
3.0 out of 5 stars Wright is Wrong!!#%*&
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2016
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Gavin Wright is one of the economist who tried to challenge the findings of Robert Fogel's, "Time on the Cross". Fogel won the Nobel for his work after Wright and others were debunked. This book shows why Wright was Wrong!!!
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