Slavery and American Economic Development

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Recruitment Restrictions and Labor Markets: Evidence from the Postbellum U.S. South (2010, background): “Wright (2006) also suggests that the guaranteed nature of slave labor during the harvest period allowed slaveholders to extract higher cotton yields.”
Women’s rights and development (2013, unknown): “…and the ensuing narrower gender wage-gap rendered gender preferences over taxation more similar.7 Whether slavery was abolished because it was ine¢ cient and thus no longer in the interests of land-owners has also been debated (see, e.g. Fogel and Engerman (1974) or Wright (2006)).”