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| 100 | 1 | _aWright, Gavin. | |
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_aSlavery and American economic development / _cGavin Wright. |
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_aBaton Rouge : _bLouisiana State University Press, _cc2006. |
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_ax, 162 p. : _bill., maps ; _c23 cm. |
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| 490 | 1 | _aWalter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history | |
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 135-151) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction : what was slavery? -- Slavery, geography, and commerce -- Property and progress in antebellum America -- Property rights, productivity, and slavery -- Epilogue : the legacy of slavery. | |
| 520 | 1 | _a"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. | |
| 520 | 8 | _aWright 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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_aSlavery _xEconomic aspects _zUnited States. |
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_aUnited States _xEconomic conditions _yTo 1865. |
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_aRight of property _zUnited States _xHistory. |
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| 830 | 0 | _aWalter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history. | |
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