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Preserving slave families for profit : traders' incentives and pricing in the New Orleans slave market

Calomiris, Charles W.; Pritchett, Jonathan B. - In: The journal of economic history 69 (2009) 4, pp. 986-1011

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Sequential sales as a test of adverse selection in the market for slaves

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

Calomiris, Charles W.; Pritchett, Jonathan B. - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 1, pp. 1-23

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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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