American Negro Slavery by Ulrich Phillips

This Halcyon Classics ebook is Ulrich Bonnell Phillips' AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY. Phillips (1877-1934) was an influential Southern historian who used economic forces to examine slavery. He concluded that plantation slavery produced great wealth, but was a dead end, economically, that left the South bypassed by the industrial revolution underway in the North.

Phillips concluded that plantation slavery was not very profitable and would probably have faded away without the American Civil War, a c...