One Kind of Freedom The Economic Consequences of Emancipation

Name: One Kind of Freedom The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
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ISBN: 9780521795500

ISBN-10: 0521795508

ISBN-13: 9780521795500

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Roger L. Ransom, Richard Sutch

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The new edition of the economic history classic One Kind of Freedom reprints the entire text of the first edition together with a new introduction by the authors and an extensive bibliography of works in Southern history published since the appearance of the first edition. The book examines the economic institutions that replaced slavery and the conditions under which ex-slaves were allowed to enter the economic life of the United States following the Civil War. The authors contend that although the kind of freedom permitted to black Americans allowed substantial increases in their economic welfare, it effectively curtailed further black advancement and retarded Southern economic…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Roger L. Ransom is professor of history and economics at the University of California, Riverside. He is co-author of the groundbreaking work One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.



Preface


Preface to the new edition


Acknowledgements


A note to the reader



What did freedom mean?



The legacy of slavery



The myth of the prostrate South



The demise of the plantation



Agricultural reconstruction



Financial reconstruction



The emergence of the merchants' territorial monopoly



The trap of debt peonage



The roots of southern poverty


Statistical appendixes


Epilogue


A bibliography of literature on the South after 1977


Notes


Bibliography


Index