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Economic change and contract labor in the British Caribbean: The end of slavery and the adjustment to emancipation
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This article is published in Explorations in Economic History.The article was published on 1984-04-01. It has received 28 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Emancipation.read more
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Deadweight Loss and the American Civil War: The Political Economy of Slavery, Secession, and Emancipation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence for the peculiar institution's inefficiency, and show that it was a system that imposed significant "deadweight loss" on the Southern economy, despite being lucrative for slaveholders.
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Slavery and Emancipation in Comparative Perspective: A Look at Some Recent Debates
TL;DR: The authors 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.
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From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000
TL;DR: From Slavery to Aid as discussed by the authors explores the social history of the region of Ader in the Nigerien Sahel and traces the historical transformations that turned a society where slavery was a fundamental institution into one governed by the goals and methods of 'aid'.
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Chinese immigration and contract labor in the late nineteenth century
Patricia Cloud,David W. Galenson +1 more
TL;DR: This paper argued that existing American laws prevented the effective use of a legal indenture system when Chinese laborers began to arrive in California in the 1850s, but that Chinese merchants in San Francisco developed extralegal means of operating a bound labor system.
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The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a hypothesis regarding the causes of agricultural serfdom or slavery. But the hypothesis is limited to the Russian experience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and it aims at a wider applicability.
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The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis
TL;DR: The authors provides an economic analysis of the innovation of indentured servitude, describes the economic forces that caused its decline and disappearance from the British colonies, and considers why indentured service was revived for migration to the West Indies during the great free migration of Europeans to the Americas.