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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786528303321

Autore

Genovese Eugene D. <1930-2012, >

Titolo

The political economy of slavery : studies in the economy and society of the slave South / / Eugene D. Genovese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , [1988]

©1988

ISBN

0-8195-7527-5

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 pages)

Collana

Wesleyan paperback

Disciplina

306/.362/0975

Soggetti

Slavery - Economic aspects - United States

Slavery - Economic aspects - Southern States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 321-324.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Introduction to the Wesleyan Edition; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART ONE THE SETTING; 1 The Slave South: An Interpretation; PART TWO VIRGIN LAND AND SERVILE LABOR; 2 The Low Productivity of Southern Slave Labor: Causes and Effects; 3 The Negro Laborer in Africa and the Slave South; 4 Cotton, Slavery, and Soil Exhaustion; 5 Livestock in the Slave Economy; 6 The Limits of Agricultural Reform; PART THREE THE SUBSERVIENCE OF TOWN TO COUNTRY

7 The Significance of the Slave Plantation for Southern Economic Development8 The Industrialists Under the Slave Regime; 9 Slave Labor or Free in the Southern Factories: A Political Analysis of an Economic Debate; PART F0UR THE GENERAL CRISIS OF THE SLAVE SOUTH; 10 The Origins of Slavery Expansionism; A Note on the Place of Economics in the Political Economy of Slavery; Epilogue: The Slave Economies in Political Perspective (with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese); Bibliographical Note; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

A stimulating analysis of the society and economy in the slave south.