Discuss the difference in labor regimes between the eastern regions of the old slave holding states and the new areas opened up for cotton cultivation further west.
After having read about the terrible conditions slaves had to endure in Haiti, you will next be reading about the experience of slaves in the south of the United States, in an article by Edward Baptist: Edward E. Baptist, “Towards a Political Economy of Slave Labor: Hands, Whipping-Machines, and Modern Power,” in Sven Beckert and … Read more