Presented By: Department of Economics
Reckoning with Slavery for Fifty Years
Gavin Wright, Stanford University
My presentation will review research on the economics of slavery in the United States over the past half-century: profitability, viability, productivity and growth. One conclusion is that slavery’s positive contribution to national economic development ended at the time of the American Revolution.
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