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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation

Hummel, Jeffrey RogersThe University of Texas at Austin2001

Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. The view of the classical economists, dating back as far as Adam Smith and including a good many abolitionists, was that slavery was inefficient and therefore unprofitable. The contrasting position …

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Short Remarks on the Political and Social Writings of Reverend Anthony Walke of Princess Anne County, Virginia & a Concise & Impartial Account of the Causes of Their Origins & Progress

Vogt, Roberta

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Who Owns This Body? Enslaved Women's Claim on Themselves

Sandeen, Loucynda Elayne

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The Apologist Tradition: A Transitional Period in Southern Proslavery Thought, 1831-1845

Austin, ClaraUniversity of North Texas2000

Early antebellum defenders of slavery acknowledged that slavery created problems for southern society. They contended, however, that slave society was better and more natural than other forms of social organization. Thomas R. Dew, William Harper, and James Henry Hammond each expressed a social …

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