Institutional change

Stanley Engerman

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, vol. 40, issue 4, 596-603

Abstract: This paper deals with the rise and decline of slavery in the Americas, focusing on the timing and pattern of slave emancipations and the economic adjustments made to the legal ending of slavery.

Keywords: Slavery vs. free labor; Indentured labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N36 N56 N96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2012.03.003

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