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Does land abundance explain African institutions?

Fenske, James - 2009

, slavery, and polygyny. I then use crosssectional data on pre-colonial African societies to demonstrate that, consistent with … the model, the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny occurred in those parts of Africa that were the most …

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Coercion, conflict, and commodities

Cilliers, Jacobus - 2013

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Structural transformation and value change : the British abolitionist movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - 2023

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Federal slavery legislation and voting in US gubernatorial elections, 1840–1860

Jensen, Alexander; Mader, Madeline; Parinandi, Srinivas C. - In: Journal of historical political economy : JHPE 3 (2023) 2, pp. 161-178

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A "disguised scheme for compensated emancipation" : accounting for gradual abolition in nineteenth century New Jersey

McDowell, Evelyn A.; Hammond, Theresa - In: Accounting history : journal of the Accounting History … 28 (2023) 3, pp. 414-441

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The hidden history of Benjamin Montgomery : slave, manager, and accountant

Gates, Sandra; Burke, Megan; Humphreys, John - In: Accounting history : journal of the Accounting History … 27 (2022) 1, pp. 24-40

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Slavery versus labor

Dari Mattiacci, Giuseppe; Oliveira, Guilherme de - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 17 (2021) 3, pp. 495-568

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18th-century plantation slavery, capitalism and the most precious colony in the world

Yazdani, Kaveh - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 108 (2021) 4, pp. 457-503

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Intelligence and slave exports from Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - In: Journal of interdisciplinary economics 32 (2020) 2, pp. 145-159

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The long shadow of slavery: the persistence of slave owners in Southern law-making

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2020

This paper documents the persistence of the Southern slave owning elite in political power after the end of the American Civil War. We draw on a database of Texan state legislators between 1860 and 1900 and link them to their or their ancestors' slaveholdings in 1860. We then show that former...

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