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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 book discusses how new technology led to economic transformation and the rapid expansion of slavery in the lower …
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2: Freedom, Slavery and The Rise of an Industrialized Western Civilization -- Chapter 6: Time, Scale and Understandings … of Western Civilization -- chapter 7: What is Freedom? What is Slavery? -- Chapter 8: Freedom, Democracy and … Individualism: Cause of Business Success or Mere Correlation? -- Chapter 9: Slavery and its Legacies -- Part 3: Global …
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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 1862....
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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 1862....
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