African-American Slavery and the Cliometric Revolution

Richard Sutch ()
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Richard Sutch: University of California

A chapter in Handbook of Cliometrics, 2024, pp 1109-1154 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores the significant contributions to the history of African-American slavery made by the application of the tools of cliometrics. As used here “cliometrics” is defined as a method of scientific analysis marked by the explicit use of economic theory and quantitative methods. American slavery of the late antebellum period (1840–1860) was one of the earliest topics that cliometricians focused on and, arguably, the topic upon which they made the largest impact.

Keywords: Slavery; Slave trade; Slave breeding; Slave markets; Cotton plantations; African-Americans; Cliometrics; Antebellum economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35583-7_62

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