Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Economic History Society
- New Studies in Economic and Social History
- Studies in Economic and Social History
List of figures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Economic History Society
- New Studies in Economic and Social History
- Studies in Economic and Social History
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- Debating SlaveryEconomy and Society in the Antebellum American South, pp. viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998