Debating Slavery Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South

Name: Debating Slavery Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South
Price: 5.18 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780521576963

ISBN-10: 0521576962

ISBN-13: 9780521576963

Edition: 1998

Authors: Mark M. Smith, Maurice Kirby

List price: $20.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $17.29

Marketplace

3 new & used from $5.18

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Even while slavery existed, Americans debated the subject. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Mark Smith outlines the main contours of this subject.

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/10/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 140
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.78" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Authorï¿½s preface



The contours of the debate



Slaveholders and plantations



Yeoman and non-slave-owners



Slaves



The profitability of slavery as a business



The profitability of slavery as a system



New directions, toward consensus


Bibliography