A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy

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 high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a massive data collection from census reports, which permits an economic analysis that was previously not feasible.

Author: Fred Bateman, Thomas Weiss
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/30/2002
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780807854464

About the Author
Fred Bateman is professor of economics at the University of Georgia.