Fred Bateman: 1 book
A Deplorable Scarcity
The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in...
