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The Self-Sufficiency of the Antebellum South: Estimates of the Food Supply

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  • Hutchinson, William. K.
  • Williamson, Samuel

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In the past decade the question of the degree of mutual economic dependence among the three major regions of the antebellum United States—Northeast, South, and West—has received considerable discussion. Good indicators of the degree of dependence would be ratios of the interregional trade flows of particular commodities to the amounts of those commodities produced locally in each region. Trade data are available, however, only in limited series for major cities or commercial areas. Since comprehensive trade flows cannot be measured directly, various indirect approaches to the question have been employed.

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  • Hutchinson, William. K. & Williamson, Samuel, 1971. "The Self-Sufficiency of the Antebellum South: Estimates of the Food Supply," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 31(3), pages 591-612, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:31:y:1971:i:03:p:591-612_07
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    1. Matthew T. Gregg, 2009. "Cultural Persistence as Behavior Towards Risk: Evidence from the North Carolina Cherokees, 1850-1880," Journal of Income Distribution, Ad libros publications inc., vol. 18(2), pages 3-15, June.
    2. Sunder, Marco, 2004. "The height of Tennessee convicts: another piece of the "antebellum puzzle"," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 2(1), pages 75-86, March.
    3. Rhode, Paul W., 2024. "What fraction of antebellum US national product did the enslaved produce?," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    4. Gregg, Matthew T. & Wishart, David M., 2012. "The price of Cherokee removal," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 49(4), pages 423-442.

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