The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white
Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most …

The nullification of slave wealth after the US Civil War (1861–1865) was one of the largest
episodes of wealth compression in history. We document that White Southern households …

We document the intergenerational mobility of black and white American men from 1880
through 2000 by building new historical datasets and combining them with modern data to …

Although today's richest countries tend to have long histories of secure private property
rights, legal-titling projects do little to improve the economic and political well-being of those …

Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from
slavery? What were formerly enslaved persons' prospects to improve their socio‐economic …

We examine the history of US land policy, with a focus on the Homestead Acts, underscoring
the precarious position of African Americans during the homesteading period. We discuss …

The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic gaps between Black and white
Americans, with a white-to-Black average wealth ratio of of 6 to 1 in 2019. Further, the gap …

Purpose The paper aims to explore the relationship between accounting and racial violence
through an investigation of sharecropping in the postbellum American South …

We estimate the effects of reparations on victims' well-being. We leverage variation from
Colombia's reparations program for victims of forced displacement, homicide, landmines …

This article focuses on two different systems of feeding enslaved people. In the first system,
primarily associated with the cotton, tobacco, and rice plantations of antebellum South and …