{"product_id":"slavery-and-american-economic-development-9780807152287","title":"Slavery and American Economic Development","description":"Through 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492099428626,"sku":"9780807152287","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1b79e373-237a-4ecb-bc66-75f1c131be2d.jpg?v=1730571281","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slavery-and-american-economic-development-9780807152287","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}