Econ Papers Daily / 期刊论文
奴隶制与东北部工业化
Slavery and Northeastern Industrialization
摘要
From the 1820s through the 1850s, parts of New England began industrializing. Over the same period, slavery expanded in the southern states in terms of the number enslaved, the geography it encompassed, and the amount each enslaved worker produced. While many scholars have looked at the connections between northern industrialization and southern slavery, it is our aim in this paper to better identify the links between these two crucial developments in our nation's history by estimating the importance of the southern market for northern textiles – the key manufacturing industry during the early antebellum period. As we will see, the South was a crucial market for cotton textiles produced in America's first factories.
中文摘要
从19世纪20年代到50年代，新英格兰的部分地区开始工业化。同一时期，南方各州的奴隶制在奴隶人数、所涵盖的地理范围以及每个 enslaved worker 的生产量方面都有所扩大。尽管许多学者研究了北方工业化与南方奴隶制之间的联系，但本文旨在通过估算南方市场对北方纺织品—— antebellum 早期关键制造业——的重要性，更好地识别我国历史上这两个关键发展之间的关联。正如我们将看到的，南方是美国第一批工厂生产的棉纺织品的关键市场。