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Author:

Bodenhorn, Howard, author.

Title:

The color factor : the economics of African-American well-being in the nineteenth-century south / Howard Bodenhorn.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiv, 320 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
African Americans--Southern States--Economic conditions--19th century.
Slaves--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
Slaves--Southern States--Economic conditions--19th century.
Southern States--Economic conditions--19th century.
Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Legal constructions of race and interpretations of color -- Race mixing and color in literature and science -- The plantation -- Finding freedom -- Marriage and the family -- Work -- Wealth -- Height, health and mortality.

Series:

NBER series on long-term factors in economic development

ISBN:

019938309X
9780199383092
0199383103
9780199383108

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898157595

LCCN:

2014046361

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)