Debating slavery : economy and society in the antebellum American South / prepared for the Economic History Society by Mark M. Smith.
Even while slavery existed, Americans debated the subject. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Mark Smith outlines the main contours of this subject.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
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1998.
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Series: | New studies in economic and social history.
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