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Comment: Betting on secession : quantifying political events surrounding slavery and the Civil War

Hallwood, Paul - 2017

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South Carolina slave prices : 1722 - 1809

Mancall, Peter C.; Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Weiss, Thomas - 2000

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Betting on Secession : Quantifying Political Events Surrounding Slavery and the Civil War

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2013

Abraham Lincoln's election produced Southern secession, Civil War, and abolition. Using a new database of slave sales from New Orleans, we examine the connections between political news and the prices of slaves for 1856-1861. We find that slave prices declined by roughly a third from their 1860...

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South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809

Mancall, Peter C. - 2000

slave price series indicates that the price of rice was the major determinant of the demand for slaves and in turn largely …

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Slave Prices in the Lower South, 1722-1815

Mancall, Peter C. - 2000

/15. In real terms, however, there was essentially no change in slave prices deflated either by a general consumer price index …, or the price of rice. Low Country slave prices were well above those in the West Indies and Maryland prior to the 1740s …

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