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050 00 $aHC107.A13$bR28 2001
082 00 $a330.976/04$221
100 1 $aRansom, Roger L.,$d1938-
245 10 $aOne kind of freedom :$bthe economic consequences of emancipation /$cRoger L. Ransom, Richard Sutch.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2001.
300 $axxvii, 458 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 421-441) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1. What did freedom mean? -- The welfare gains associated with emancipation -- The potential for economic development -- The record of economic growth -- The institutional constraints to progress -- Chapter 2. The legacy of slavery -- Slave literacy -- Slave occupations -- Education and training of slaves -- The slave work ethic -- The legacy of slavery: racism -- Black education in the postwar period -- The black artisan and professional in the postwar period -- Chapter 3. The myth of the prostrate South -- The recovery of the southern economy -- The withdrawal of black labor -- The impact of the supply of black labor on agricultural -- production -- Impact of the war on the factor-labor ratios -- The decline in land values -- The myth of the prostrate South -- Chapter 4. The demise of the plantation -- The revival of the plantation system -- Black labor in the new system -- Economic setbacks in 1866 and 1867 -- Black dissatisfaction with the plantation system -- The disappearance of the plantation -- Economies of scale in cotton agriculture -- The concentration of landownership -- Chapter 5. Agricultural reconstruction -- The denial of black landownership -- The rise of tenancy -- The nature of a sharecropping agreement -- Alternative share arrangements -- The choice of tenure -- Sharecropping and labor control -- The efficiency of sharecropping -- White tenants and white farmers -- Chapter 6. Financial reconstruction -- The antebellum financial system -- The failure of the cotton factorage system to revive -- The reestablishment of southern banking -- The rural banker -- The rise of the rural cotton center -- The reestablishment of southern merchandising -- The rural merchant as a financial intermediary -- The rural furnishing merchant: heir to the cotton factor -- Chapter 7. The emergence of the merchants' territorial monopoly -- The merchants' monopoly over credit -- The price of credit -- The merchants' territorial monopoly -- The scale of the mercantile operation -- The appearance of new firms -- The disappearance of existing firms -- The successful firm -- The merchant-landowner and the landlord-merchant -- Chapter 8. The trap of debt peonage -- The decline in the production of foodin the South -- The increased concentration upon cotton -- The disappearance of self-suffidency following the war -- The impact of the cotton lien -- The lock-in and persistence of cotton overproduction -- The genesis of debt peonage -- The "profitability" of cotton -- The burden of monopoly -- Chapter 9. The roots of southern poverty -- The dynamics of southern poverty -- The economic impact of racism: education -- The economic impact of racism: land tenure --The economic impact of racism: credit -- Capital formation and economic growth -- The world market for cotton -- The South's link to the national economy -- The close of the postemancipation era -- One kind of freedom -- STATISTICAL APPENDIXES -- Appendix A. Construction of income and welfare estimates: -- 1859-1899 -- Calculation of the exploitation rate of slaves: 1859 -- Addendum on the profitability of slavery -- Computation of labor's share of agricultural -- output: 1879 -- The cost of living: 1859,1879 -- Appendix B. Occupational distribution of southern blacks: -- 1860,1870,1890 -- The occupational distribution of slaves: 1860 -- Black occupations: 1870 -- Computation of racial balance index of -- occupations: 1890 -- Appendix C. Estimates of labor supplied by slave and free labor -- Labor force participation -- Average number of days worked per year -- Average number of hours worked per day -- Relative efficiency of women and children -- Population weights -- Appendix D. Calculation of interest charged for credit -- implicit in the dual-price system -- The Georgia surveys -- The Louisiana surveys -- The opportunity cost of credit -- The risk of default -- Supervisory costs -- Appendix E. Calculation of food residuals on -- southern farms: 1880 -- Feed grains grown in the South -- 1; Corn-equivalent units -- Feed requirements for livestock -- HIuman consumption needs -- Tenure -- Appendix F Estimates of per capita gross crop output: 1859-1908 -- Gross crop output: 1866-1908 -- Detailed description of sources and procedures, crop -- estimates: 1866-1908 -- Aggregate crop output: 1859 -- Rural population -- Addendum on rates of growth in the antebellum South -- DATA APPENDIX -- Appendix G. Descriptions of major collections of data gathered -- by the Southern Economic History Project -- 1. The Cotton South -- 2. The sample of southern farms in 1880 -- 3. Other uses of the manuscript census returns -- 4. The urban South -- 5. The Dun and Bradstreet archives -- Epilogue -- A Bibliography of Literature on the South after 1977 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xEconomic conditions.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xHistory$y1865-1951.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zSouthern States$xEconomic conditions.
700 1 $aSutch, Richard.
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c6a1-aa
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/00063045.html
856 4 $3Table of Contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/00063045.html