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The Political Economy of Slavery
Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
Eugene D. Genovese
Wesleyan University Press
distributed by
University Press of New England
Table of Contents
• Introduction to the Wesleyan Edition
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part One: The Setting: The Slave South: An Interpretation
• Part Two: Virgin Land and Servile Labor: The Low Productivity of Southern Slave Labor: Causes and Effects, The Negro Laborer in Africa and the Slave South, Cotton, Slavery, and Soil Exhaustion, Livestock in the Slave Economy, The Limits of Agricultural Reform
• Part Three: The Subservience of Town to Country: The Significance of the Slave Plantation of Southern economic Development, The Industrialists under the Slave Regime, Slave Labor or Free in the Southern Factories: A Political Analysis of and Economic Debate• Part Four: The General Crisis of the Slave South: Origins of Slavery Expansionism
• A Note on the Place of Economics in the Political Economy of Slavery
• Epilogue: The Slave Economies in Political Perspectives (With Elizabeth Fox-Genovese)
• Bibliographical Note
• Index
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