Slavery and Emancipation in Comparative Perspective: A Look at Some Recent Debates
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 46 (2) , 317-339
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700046155
Abstract
This paper examines several recent arguments about the role of slavery in the settling of the New World, the viability of slavery as an economic institution in the nineteenth century, and the causes and consequences of slave emancipation in the Americas. Comparisons are made between the analysis of slavery and that of other labor institutions, such as serfdom and free labor.Keywords
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