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By Robert William Fogel
Эта книга подытоживает исследования выдающегося американского историка и экономиста, лауреата Нобелевской премии 1993 года, одного из основателей клиометрики Роберта Фогеля по проблеме истории рабства в Новом Свете, в особенности на Юге США.
Аргументированно ставя под сомнение концепции своих предшественников, Фогель доказывает, что рабовладельческое плантационное хозяйство было высокоэффективно и жизнеспособно, обеспечивая как огромные прибыли для владельцев, так и относительно высокий жизненный уровень для большинства рабов, а также стабильный экономический рост для южных штатов. Впрочем, вывод из этого он делает весьма неожиданный: именно в силу перспективности рабовладения Гражданская война в США была совершенно оправдана, поскольку иначе освобождения негров просто не произошло бы. Монография охватывает также историю аболиционистского движения, рассматривая факторы его успехов, неудач и конечной победы (которая, по мнению Фогеля, вовсе не была предопределена заранее, и во многом стала результатом кратковременного совпадения интересов разных социальных групп).
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5 Although it has been argued that the British demand for sugar was stagnating because of increasing competition from Cuba and Puerto Rico, the high tariff effectively excluded foreign sugar from the British markets. During the decade before the British abolition of slavery, 1825-1834, foreign sugar accounted for a minor share (just 6 percent) of Britain's imports. Far from declining, the British demand for sugar increased substantially between the early 1 790S and the early 183os. The' rate of increase was both rapid and steady during the last 20 years of the period, when Cuban competition was supposed to have become especially troublesome.
Those varied patterns cannot be explained by differ ential mortality rates. An alternative explanation is suggested by antebellum documents that instruct plantation managers to select craftsmen from among the ablest of the field hands. Such instructions indicate that elite jobs later in life were held out to field hands as a reward for high levels of productivity. If such an incentive scheme were successful, the increased output of field hands competing for the limited number of opportunities could have more than offset the reduced period over which masters had to amortize their investment in the training of an artisan.
During the course of this chapter certain aspects of an emerging new synthesis on the northern economy will be brought out. However, the evidence on northern economic conditions is so deeply intertwined with the evidence on the social and political move ments of the region that to separate the two questions would distort both. Consequently, the main analysis of the northern economy is set forth in Chapters 9 and 1 0. " 2 The average wealth among farmers of the cotton belt in 1 860 was $ 1 3, 1 2 4 (Figure 81 82 WITHOUT CONSENT OR CONTRACI' 1 5) ' On the other hand, the average wealth of urban laborers in the major northern cities was less than $ 1 50, while the average for laborers in the rural areas of the North was hardly $400.