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Debating slavery : economy and society in the antebellum American South / prepared for the Economic History Society by Mark M. Smith

Economic History Society [Herausgebendes Organ]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 117 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

978-1-139-17112-0 ( : ebook)

978-0-521-57158-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-57696-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 967396867     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9781139171120

E441

306.3/62/0975     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Southern States ; Southern States -- Economic conditions

Slavery ; Economic aspects ; Southern States ; Southern States ; Economic conditions

Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions concerning the profitability of slavery, its impact on masters, slaves, and nonslaveowners still inform modern historical debates. Is the slave South best characterized as a capitalist society? Or did its dogged adherence to non-wage labor render it precapitalist? Today, southern slavery is among the most hotly disputed topics in writing on American history. With the use of illustrative material and a critical bibliography, Dr Smith outlines the main contours of this complex debate, summarizes the contending viewpoints, and at the same time weighs up the relative importance, strengths and weaknesses of the various competing interpretations. This book introduces an important topic in American history in a manner which is accessible to students and undergraduates taking courses in American history