A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy

by Thomas Weiss and Fred Bateman

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In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807854468

ISBN13:9780807854464

Release Date:June 2002

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:250 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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African-American Studies Business Business & Finance Business & Investing Business Development Civil War Development & Growth Economics History Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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