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Debt Peonage in the Cotton South After the Civil War

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ID5791578
AuthorsRoger L Ransom (University of California, Riverside), Richard Sutch (University of California, Berkeley)
Year1972
Volume32
Issue3
Pages641-669
Publication date1972-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022050700077160
OpenAlexW2123635557
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited12

This condition of affairs in the South introduced a vast credit system whose tremendous evils and exorbitant exactions have brought poverty and bankruptcy to thousands of families. As a policy, it is vindictive in its subtle sophistry; as a system, it has crushed out all independence and reduced its victims to a coarse species of servile slavery

Bankruptcy · Business · Debt · Development economics · Economics · Independence · Independence (probability theory) · Political science · Poverty · Spanish Civil War · Finance · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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Unique citing works32
Citations per year0,6
Citation span1973 - 2023 (51)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 32

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