Description
Contents: PART One: The Setting - The Slave South: An Interpretation. PART Two: 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 Three: 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 Four: The General Crisis of the Slave South - Origins of Slavery Expansionism. - A Note on the Place of Economics in the Political Economy of Slavery.
