Tag: plantation-economics
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How Cotton Built the American South
Examine how Southern cotton production integrated into the British textile economy, why the cotton gin deepened rather than dissolved slavery, and what the plantation political economy reveals about the relationship between commodity booms and coercive labor.
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The Economics of the Tobacco Trade
Tobacco's economic logic shaped everything about colonial Virginia: the labor system, land distribution, political power, and the commercial relationship with London merchants. Addiction-driven commodities create structurally unusual markets — and the history of tobacco shows exactly why.
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The Economics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Examine the commercial structure of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade — its profitability calculations, triangular trade logic, African kingdom supply chains, and how slave trade profits seeded British financial markets.
