Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Preface to the new edition
- Acknowledgments
- A note to the reader
- Chapter 1 What did freedom mean?
- Chapter 2 The legacy of slavery
- Chapter 3 The myth of the prostrate South
- Chapter 4 The demise of the plantation
- Chapter 5 Agricultural reconstruction
- Chapter 6 Financial reconstruction
- Chapter 7 The emergence of the merchants' territorial monopoly
- Chapter 8 The trap of debt peonage
- Chapter 9 The roots of southern poverty
- STATISTICAL APPENDIXES
- Appendix A Construction of income and welfare estimates: 1859–1899
- Appendix B Occupational distribution of southern blacks: 1860, 1870, 1890
- Appendix C Estimates of labor supplied by slave and free labor
- Appendix D Calculation of interest charged for credit implicit in the dual-price system
- Appendix E Calculation of food residuals on southern farms: 1880
- Appendix F Estimates of per capita gross crop output: 1859–1908
- DATA APPENDIX
- Epilogue
- A Bibliography of Literature on the South after 1977
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix A - Construction of income and welfare estimates: 1859–1899
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Preface to the new edition
- Acknowledgments
- A note to the reader
- Chapter 1 What did freedom mean?
- Chapter 2 The legacy of slavery
- Chapter 3 The myth of the prostrate South
- Chapter 4 The demise of the plantation
- Chapter 5 Agricultural reconstruction
- Chapter 6 Financial reconstruction
- Chapter 7 The emergence of the merchants' territorial monopoly
- Chapter 8 The trap of debt peonage
- Chapter 9 The roots of southern poverty
- STATISTICAL APPENDIXES
- Appendix A Construction of income and welfare estimates: 1859–1899
- Appendix B Occupational distribution of southern blacks: 1860, 1870, 1890
- Appendix C Estimates of labor supplied by slave and free labor
- Appendix D Calculation of interest charged for credit implicit in the dual-price system
- Appendix E Calculation of food residuals on southern farms: 1880
- Appendix F Estimates of per capita gross crop output: 1859–1908
- DATA APPENDIX
- Epilogue
- A Bibliography of Literature on the South after 1977
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- One Kind of FreedomThe Economic Consequences of Emancipation, pp. 203 - 219Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001