Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy

@article{Wright2022SlaveryAT,
  title={Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy},
  author={Gavin Wright},
  journal={Journal of Economic Perspectives},
  year={2022},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:248716718}
}
The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in the acceleration of US economic growth in the nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists, the proposition… 
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