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profitability of slavery: a standalone construct

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Economic history

the finding that slaveholding in the antebellum American South earned returns comparable to other investments, so slavery was not dying out economically.

In economic history, profitability of slavery refers to the finding that slaveholding in the antebellum American South earned returns comparable to other investments, so slavery was not dying out economically. This meaning comes from Conrad (1958) in Journal of Political Economy.[1]

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Conrad, A. H., & Meyer, J. R. (1958). The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South. Journal of Political Economy, 66(2), 95-130. https://doi.org/10.1086/258020

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