The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in the acceleration of US
economic growth in the nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists …

The interest generated by the anthropometric research program since the pioneering
publications of the late 1970s has been predicated to a considerable degree on the …

" Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative
punch. It is one of those rare books about a familiar subject that manages to seem fresh and …

Originating with the birth of the nation itself, in many respects, the story of the domestic slave
trade is also the story of the early United States. While an external traffic in slaves had …

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its
wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich …

Abstract The “New History of Capitalism” grounds the rise of industrial capitalism on the
production of raw cotton by American slaves. Recent works include Sven Beckert's Empire of …

Does the lack of wealth constrain parents' investments in the human capital of their
descendants? We conduct a nearly 50-year follow-up of an episode in which such …

Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The
Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old …

British and American debates on the relationship between slavery and economic growth
have had little interaction with each other. This article attempts intellectual arbitrage by …

Most students of constitutions focus on normative questions or study the effects of particular
constitutional provisions. This article falls into a third and much smaller tradition that attempts …