June 23, 2007
ISSUE# LXX
Patrick Manning is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Northeastern University, where he directs the World History Center.
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The Economics of Slavery
Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
From the middle of the seventeenth century to the start of the Civil War, slavery and commercial agriculture were intimately associated. During the colonial period, slaves grew much of the tobacco in Virginia and the Carolinas, rice in the low country of South Carolina and Georgia, and sugar on the Caribbean islands—all crops that found their way into world markets.......(Read More )
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