aeon.co hosts some excellent essays. This piece by the historian Keri Leigh Merritt on the American South enlightens the reader because the author incorporates race into her historical sketch of the economic underdevelopment of the region, as opposed to moralizing or appealing to suprahistorical racial categories.

Anybody wanting to know more about recent arguments regarding the relation between slavery and capitalism in the USA should read the Gavin Wright article referenced in this essay.

Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/capitalism-and-underdevelopment-in-the-american-south

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Capitalism and (under)development in the American South | Aeon Essays

In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy

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