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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...
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The long shadow of slavery: the persistence of slave owners in Southern law-making
Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2020
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The long shadow of slavery: the persistence of slave owners in Southern law-making
Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2020
This paper documents the persistence of the Southern slave owning elite in political power after the end of the American Civil War. We draw on a database of Texan state legislators between 1860 and 1900 and link them to their or their ancestors' slaveholdings in 1860. We then show that former...
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Comment: Betting on secession : quantifying political events surrounding slavery and the Civil War
Hallwood, Paul - 2017
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Illiberal economic institutions and racial intolerance in the United States
Wright, Walker - In: Economic affairs : journal of the Institute of Economic … 42 (2022) 2, pp. 307-326
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Biological innovation and productivity growth in the antebellum cotton economy
Olmstead, Alan L.; Rhode, Paul W. - 2008
"The Cliometrics literature on slave efficiency has generally focused on static questions. We take a decidedly more dynamic approach. Drawing on the records of 142 plantations with 509 crops years, we show that the average daily cotton picking rate increased about four-fold between 1801 and...
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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. -- race ; inequality …
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Slavery in the United States of North America : a lecture delivered in Liverpool, December, 1861
Trimble, Robert - 1863
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Start-up nation? : slave wealth and entrepreneurship in Civil War Maryland
González, Felipe; Marshall, Guillermo; Naidu, Suresh - 2016
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Socioeconomic differences in the health of black Union Army soldiers
Lee, Chulhee - 2009
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