Canaday, Neil; Jaremski, Matthew - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 3, pp. 291-302
Many postbellum southern farms specialized in cotton, but black-operated farms planted much larger shares of cotton than white-operated farms. This paper tests various explanations for the pattern of specialization using 1879 farm-specific data. We find that the cross-sectional racial variation...