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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Table of Contents:
- 1. The contours of a debate
- 2. Slaveholders and plantations
- 3. Yeomen and non-slaveowners
- 4. Slaves
- 5. The profitability of slavery as a business
- 6. The profitability of slavery as a system
- 7. New directions, toward consensus.