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"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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This study explores the imprint of American slavery on industrial innovation. We hypothesize that historical slave … slavery in 1860 was followed by a relative decline in patents, where this relationship became evident only after … concentration after Reconstruction, which corroborates the impact of slavery on the shift of production technology. Contrary to the …
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