The Slave Economy of the Old South: Selected Essays in Economic and Social History

After a half century the essays of Ulrich Bonnell Philips. which have been collected in this volume, remain the best available introduction to the processes through which the Old South’s slave econemy began, grew, and collapsed. “However much we may quarrel with Phillips’ specific formulations or wish to revise his priority of race over class in the interpretation of Southern history, there can be little doubt that he posed the difficult questions, advanced stimulating hypotheses, and kept the consideration of economics where it belongs—in the context of an integrated human history.”—-Eugene D. Genovese in the Introduction Cover Half title Imprint Contents INTRODUCTION: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips as an Economic Historian PART ONE: The Historical and Social Setting 1 Plantation and Frontier 2 Racial Problems, Adjustments and Disturbances 3 The Economics of the Plantation 4 Conservatism and Progress in the Cotton Belt 5 The Plantation as a Civilizing Factor PART TWO: The Slave Plantation in Economy and Society 6 The Origin and Growth of the Southern Black Belts 7 The Economic Cost of Slaveholding in the Cotton Belt 8 The Economics of Slave Labor in the South 9 The Economics of the Slave Trade, Foreign and Domestic 10 Financial Crises in the Antebellum South PART THREE: Industrial and Urban Problems 11 Transportation in the Antebellum South: An Economic Analysis 12 Railroads in the South 13 Historical Notes of Milledgeville, Ga. 14 State and Local Public Regulation of Industry in the South 15 The Slave Labor Problem in the Charleston District PART FOUR: A Glance at the British West Indies 16 An Antigua Plantation, 1769-1818 17 A Jamaica Slave Plantation PART FIVE: The Legacy 18 The Decadence of the Plantation System 19 Plantations with Slave Labor and Free 20 The Plantation Product of Men 21 The Central Theme of Southern History A Bibliography of the Printed Writings of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Index