The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South

This volume presents the first full-length study of the ways in which skin color intersected with policy, society, and economy in the nineteenth-century South. With empirical and statistical rigor, the investigation confirms that individuals of mixed race experienced advantages over African Americans in multiple dimensions—in occupations, family formation and family size, wealth, health, and access to freedom, among other criteria.