Poverty of Slavery

Robert E. Wright is the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana University, USA. He has co/authored or co/edited two dozen books on US economic history and policy, including Corporation Nation, Fubarnomics, and One Nation Under Debt. He has served on the board of Historians Against Slavery, an NGO, since 2012.

“Wright’s book ought to be considered as the synthesis of an underappreciated analytical tradition regarding the broader economic consequences of slavery.” (EH.Net, May, 2018)

• 1. Yet Another Half Untold.- 2. Various Degrees of Liberty.- 3. A Not So Peculiar Institution.- 4. Slavery Resilient.- 5. That Which is Seen: Enslavers' Profits.- 6. That Which is Unseen, Part I: Slavery’s Pollution.- 7. That Which is Unseen, Part II: Slavery’s Hidden Costs.- 8. Real Abolition.