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Cotton, Slavery, and the New History of Capitalism with Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

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Plantation Crops, Upland Cotton Varieties From Mexico

New cotton varieties, upland cotton varieties from mexico, were introduced in the early nineteenth century. The amount of cotton picked per day according to cards, quadrupled. So if you think of slavery as tisa, stagnant system without incentives, this is really showing, no, it had very substantial increases in productivity,. In what slaves could do per person.

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