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The political economy of slavery : studies in the economy & society of the slave South /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-2012
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
Edition:2nd ed., 1st Wesleyan ed.
Series:Wesleyan paperback.
Subjects:
Slavery > Economic aspects > United States.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Southern States.
United States > Economic conditions.
Southern States > Economic conditions.
Economic history.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Southern States.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 The Setting
  • The Slave South
  • An Interpretation
  • Part 2 Virgin Land and Servile Labor
  • The Low Productivity of Southern Slave Labor
  • Causes and Effects
  • The Negro Laborer in Africa and the Slave South
  • Cotton
  • Slavery, and Soil Exhaustion
  • Livestock in the Slave Economy
  • The Limits of Agricultural Reform
  • Part 3 The Subservience of Town to Country
  • The Significance of the Slave Plantation of Southern economic Development
  • The Industrialists under the Slave Regime
  • Slave Labor or Free in the Southern Factories
  • A Political Analysis of and Economic Debate
  • Part 4 The General Crisis of the Slave South
  • Origins of Slavery Expansionism.