The Complexion Gap: The Economic Consequences of Color among Free African Americans in the Rural Antebellum South
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- N3 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
- J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
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