affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the movement for the abolition of slavery in the late 18th and early 19th … values and weak economic interest in the status quo to mobilize for change. Using data on anti-slavery petitions, membership … parliamentary speeches to show that industrialists were relatively less reliant on income from slavery and were characterized by a …

customers--that share the benefits of exclusion. As a particular historical example, we study the Canadian sugar industry of the …

Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively … across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We … investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that …

The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime … example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social … migrants' outcomes, and then offers a more speculative interpretation of how the Great Migration fostered the advancement of …