In this Book
- Slavery and American Economic Development
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Louisiana State University Press
- Series: Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Cover, Title Page
- pp. 1-7
- Introduction: What Was Slavery?
- pp. 1-13
- 1. Slavery, Geography, and Commerce
- pp. 14-47
- Epilogue: The Legacy of Slavery
- pp. 123-127
- Works Cited
- pp. 135-151
Additional Information
ISBN
9780807152751
Related ISBN(s)
9780807131831
MARC Record
OCLC
829461955
Pages
176
Launched on MUSE
2013-06-30
Language
English
Open Access
No