Plantation slavery and economic development in the Antebellum Southern United States

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 289-332

  Post, Charles ^a,b  

^a SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Borough of Manhattan Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrarian class structure; Capitalism; Plantation slavery; USA; World market

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC HISTORY; PLANTATION; SLAVE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346505123     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0366.00057     Document Type: Article

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