The Political Economy of Slavery
Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South

Genovese, Eugene D.
Publisher:  Vintage Books, New York, USA
Year Published:  1965
Pages:  304pp   Resource Type:  Book

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Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I: The Setting
1. The Slave South: An Interpretation

Part II: Virgin Land and Servile Labour
2. The Low Productivity of Southern Slave Labour: Causes and Effects
3. The Negro Labourer in Africa and the Slave South
4. Cotton, Slavery, and Soil Exhaustion
5. Livestock in the Slave Economy
6. The Limits of Agricultural Reform

Part III: The Subservience of Town to Country
7. The Significance of the Slave Plantation for Southern Economic Development
8. The Industrialists under the Slave Regime
9. Slave Labour or Free in the Southern Factories: A Political Analysis of an Economic Debate

Part IV: The General Crisis of the Slave South
10. The Origins of Slavery Expansionism

Bibliographical Note
Index

Subject Headings

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