{"product_id":"slavery-and-american-economic-development-paperback","title":"Slavery and American Economic Development - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGavin Wright\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. He draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organization--the aspect that has dominated historical debates--and slavery as a set of property rights. Slave-based commerce remained central to the eighteenth-century rise of the Atlantic economy, not because slave plantations were superior as a method of organizing production, but because slaves could be put to work on sugar plantations that could not have attracted free labor on economically viable terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGavin Wright is William Robertson Coe Professor in American Economic History at Stanford University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Political Economy of the Cotton South \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOld South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award of the Southern Historical Association. He served as president of the Economic History Association and the Agricultural History Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722875179071,"sku":"9780807152287","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4a1780eae658e75be1701a0335ab59ee.webp?v=1765097250","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/slavery-and-american-economic-development-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}