After a half century the essays of Ulrich Bonnell Philips. which have been collected in this volume, remain the best available introduction to the processes through which the Old South’s slave econemy began, grew, and collapsed.
“However much we may quarrel with Phillips’ specific formulations or wish to revise his priority of race over class in the interpretation of Southern history, there can be little doubt that he posed the difficult questions, advanced stimulating hypotheses, and kept the consideration of economics where it belongs—in the context of an integrated human history.”—-Eugene D. Genovese in the Introduction
Author(s): Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene D. Genovese
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Year: 1968
Language: English
Pages: 304
City: Baton Rouge
Tags: slaveeconomyofol0000ulri
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Contents
INTRODUCTION: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips as an Economic Historian
PART ONE: The Historical and Social Setting
1 Plantation and Frontier
2 Racial Problems, Adjustments and Disturbances
3 The Economics of the Plantation
4 Conservatism and Progress in the Cotton Belt
5 The Plantation as a Civilizing Factor
PART TWO: The Slave Plantation in Economy and Society
6 The Origin and Growth of the Southern Black Belts
7 The Economic Cost of Slaveholding in the Cotton Belt
8 The Economics of Slave Labor in the South
9 The Economics of the Slave Trade, Foreign and Domestic
10 Financial Crises in the Antebellum South
PART THREE: Industrial and Urban Problems
11 Transportation in the Antebellum South: An Economic Analysis
12 Railroads in the South
13 Historical Notes of Milledgeville, Ga.
14 State and Local Public Regulation of Industry in the South
15 The Slave Labor Problem in the Charleston District
PART FOUR: A Glance at the British West Indies
16 An Antigua Plantation, 1769-1818
17 A Jamaica Slave Plantation
PART FIVE: The Legacy
18 The Decadence of the Plantation System
19 Plantations with Slave Labor and Free
20 The Plantation Product of Men
21 The Central Theme of Southern History
A Bibliography of the Printed Writings of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Index
