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Slavery and the Southern economy; sources and readings

Title
Slavery and the Southern economy; sources and readings, compiled and edited by Harold D. Woodman.
Author
Woodman, Harold D.
Publication
New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1966]

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Description
x, 261 pages; 23 cm
Series Statement
The Forces in American economic growth series
Uniform Title
Forces in American economic growth series
Subject
  • Slavery > Southern States
  • 15.85 history of America
  • Economic history
  • Slavery
  • Slavernij
  • Southern States > Economic conditions
  • Southern States
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 260-261.
Contents
Standard of living of the planter class -- Comparative advantages and disadvantages in the employment of slave labor -- Measurement of income from planting with slave labor -- Future prospects for production by slave labor -- Planter-farmer competition -- Yeomen -- Poor whites -- Slavery as a civilizing agency -- Slavery as a demoralizing and brutalizing force -- Irrelevance of slavery to southern development -- Economic advantage of slavery -- Economic disadvantages of slavery -- Need for plantation organization -- Comparative economic development of the west and the south -- Stultifying effects of tradition.
LCCN
66018864
OCLC
  • ocm00427066
  • 427066
  • SCSB-581539
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library