... and Ohio, “the difference is striking.” It is due to “Slavery, I regard slavery as more prejudicial still to the masters than to the slaves. The slaves of Kentucky are treated very gently… But slavery prevent the emigrants coming to us. They deprive us of the energy and enterprising spirit which...

..., 2016) that the Kansas-Nebraska Act obviated faith in the ability of the Whigs — and for different reasons for some, the Free Soilers — to manage the status quo situation: confining slavery to the 36th parallel. Support for Democratic gubernatorial candidates, by contrast, appeared less responsive...

... likely to be subject to pain-driven contracts. Chwe then applies his model to British child labor and to US slavery, and he argues that one way to think of the slave’s outside option is as the “expected utility of an escape attempt” (p. 1113). I share this perspective, and I specify two empirically...

...David A. Bateman; Eric Schickler The legacies of slavery have shaped nearly all aspects of American politics. Acharya, Blackwell, and Sen’s Deep Roots: How Slavery Shapes Southern Politics deploys sophisticated methods of causal inference to empirically identify one of these legacies...

...Seyler François This paper investigates the long-term influence of slavery and its abolition on development, social capital, and political attitudes in Brazil. I show that slavery and support for coercive institutions — measured by legislators’ voting decisions on emancipation related bills...

...Soumyajit Mazumder How and to what degree did slavery shape the reach of the American state? Building on existing literatures, I develop and test the hypothesis that slavery shaped the development of the American welfare state by creating highly labor coercive societies. To test the argument, I...

...Ali T. Ahmed; Marcus Johnson; Mateo Vásquez-Cortés What is the effect of slavery on long-run party system development in the Americas? Recent research has examined these issues in the United States by focusing on contemporary white attitudes. However, relatively little research has considered...