Slavery and American Economic Development

Gavin Wright author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Louisiana State University Press

Published:18th Feb '13

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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 organisation, 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.

ISBN: 9780807152287

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 333g

176 pages