The 19th Century US Economic History of Land Property & Wealth Owners

1. 'The debate over market/individual regulation and freedom is not a new discussion. However a clear understanding of the freedoms (or the lack of freedoms) and their economic consequences on early black Americans provides an informative understanding to the freedoms (or the lack of freedoms) and their economic consequences on other modern ethnic groups. Leon Litwack (1961) and Ira Berlin (1974) provide the most comprehensive historical accounts of free blacks in the north and south respectively. This study attempts to build upon their successes by presenting one of the first national studies' 2. 'The debate over market/individual regulation and freedom dates as far back as religious Holy documents such as The Holy Bible' |KJV Exodus 20 2-17 Phillipians 4 13| ...This book 'focuses on the plight of the average antebellum free black American which in hindsight illuminated the path of the average black American after emancipation as well as Americans of other ethnicities over time' 3. 'The structure of the paper is as follows' 1. Introduction 2. Introductory Outline 3. Related Studies 4. Descriptive Statistics 5. Theory 6. Findings 7. Conclusions 8. References.