Gavin Wright-American Economic Association

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see page 225, when slavery ended, black family labor allocation moved markedly to a normal pattern for the era. The main change is that women worked much less at market production. Presumably children worked somewhat less also.
Human rights meant African Americans could begin to control their families.

http://j-bradford-delong.net/teaching_folder/Econ_210c_spring_2002/Readings/Wright_Efficiency.pdf

 

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