Between Slavery and Capitalism : The Legacy of Emancipation in the American S...

Between Slavery and Capitalism : The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South, Hardcover by Ruef, Martin, ISBN 0691162778, ISBN-13 9780691162775, Brand New, Free P&P in the UKRuef critically evaluates the continuity of economic institutions in the late-nineteenth-and-early twentieth-century South on the assumption that the legacy of American slavery and emancipation cannot be understood without a systematic assessment of the changes in socioeconomic status experienced by both whites and blacks over this period. Key elements are that the transformation involved a transition and clash in political institutions as well as economic ones, and that enduring uncertainty was a defining feature of this transition between pre-capitalist and capitalist institutions, which affected historical participants, including former slaves, Freemen Bureau agents, planters, merchants, and politicians. There are eight chapters: institutional transformation and uncertainty; constructing a free labor market; status attainment among emancipated slaves; class structure in the Old and New South; the demise of the plantation; credit and trade in the New South; paths to development; emancipation in comparative perspective. There is a list of illustrations, a list of tables, notes references, and appendixes. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()