A Deplorable Scarcity

The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy

By: Thomas Weiss

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Paperback | 30 June 2002

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In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census reports, which permits an economic analysis that was previously not feasible.

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Non-Fiction History Specific Events & Topics in History Slavery & Abolition of Slavery Regional & National History History of the Americas Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Black & Asian Studies Military History American Civil War

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The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill	p. ii
Preface	p. xi
The Southern Industrial Economy: Introduction and Overview	p. 3
Why was Southern Manufacturing "Backward"?: The Major Hypotheses	p. 27
Firm, Industry, and Market Size: The Effect on Southern Industrial Development	p. 49
Did Factor Supplies Constrain Southern Industrialization?	p. 70
Profitability of Antebellum Southern Manufacturing and the Investment Response	p. 99
Capital Gains, Information Costs, Risk, and the Behavior of Southern Investors	p. 128
Market Structure, Profitability, and Southern Industrialization	p. 143
Summary and Conclusions	p. 157
Appendixes	p. 165
Index	p. 225
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