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FREEDOM LAWS & THE ECONOMICS OF ETHNICITY

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James Edward Curtis Jr

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James Edward Curtis Jr
James Curtis Jr is the President & Research Economist of The James Edward Curtis Jr Education Foundation

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Curtis Jr, James Edward. "FREEDOM LAWS & THE ECONOMICS OF ETHNICITY." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 3, no. 9, Sept. 2018, pp. 4642-4749, ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=328. Accessed Sept. 2018.
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Curtis Jr, J. (2018, September). FREEDOM LAWS & THE ECONOMICS OF ETHNICITY. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 3(9), 4642-4749. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=328
Chicago
Curtis Jr, James Edward. "FREEDOM LAWS & THE ECONOMICS OF ETHNICITY." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 3, no. 9 (September 2018), 4642-4749. Accessed September, 2018. ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=328.

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Abstract:
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 Litwick (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 that combines the legal, demographic and economic experiences of free blacks, with an extended analysis of antebellum wealth inequality. In doing so, I investigate the link between the social asymmetry and economic asymmetry among early blacks and whites in the United States of America. For the empirical study, I used cross-sectional variables from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample (IPUMS), I developed informative conditional ratios, and I employ least squares statistical analyses. This study finds that economic differences among ethnic groups, as measured by differences between early blacks and whites, are intertwined with asymmetrical freedoms.

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