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Race, Literacy, and Real Estate Transactions in the Postbellum South

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  • Canaday, Neil
  • Reback, Charles

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This article examines barriers that impeded the accumulation of land by African Americans in the postbellum South with a new data set of real estate transactions from 1880 Tennessee. We find that rates of purchase by African Americans differed little between plantation and non-plantation regions. We also find that parcels sold in plantation regions were relatively small, suggesting that African American accumulation of land was not hindered by plantation owners refusing to subdivide their properties. Additionally, we find blacks paid more than whites per acre of quality-constant land, although literacy at least partially mitigated the racial price discrimination.

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  • Canaday, Neil & Reback, Charles, 2010. "Race, Literacy, and Real Estate Transactions in the Postbellum South," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 70(2), pages 428-445, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:70:y:2010:i:02:p:428-445_00
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    1. Waymon R. Hinson, 2018. "Land Gains, Land Losses: The Odyssey of African Americans Since Reconstruction," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 77(3-4), pages 893-939, May.

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