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1810s. The limits of early bank financing of slavery -- Adapting slave financing to the needs of the frontier South during … the nation's first boom and bust -- Part II. Financing an empire of slavery in the 1820s and 1830s. Old South banks and …"Sharon Murphy's book is a powerful and unprecedented dive into the entangled history of banking and slavery in …
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We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the demographic shock following the transatlantic slave trade. First we show that, in clusters where polygyny...
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We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the demographic shock following the transatlantic slave trade. First we show that, in clusters where polygyny...
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Are there contemporary development effects of African resistance to European domination? This question is the primary issue addressed by this inquiry. We establish that African resistance has had adverse effects on post-colonial African development and discuss possible channels of such...
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