Vol. 41 No. 2 (2023): Essays in Economic & Business History

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The Journal of the Economic & Business History Society

Special issue: The Economic and Business History of Black Americans

Guest Editors: Gary Hoover, Matthew Mitchell and Dan Giedeman

Published: 2023-11-27

Front Matter

Contents and Guest Editors' Introduction

Gary A. Hoover, Matthew D. Mitchell, Daniel C. Giedeman

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Articles

Reassessing the Contributions of Black Inventors to the Golden Age of Innovation

Michael J. Andrews, Jonathan T. Rothwell

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Contributions of Black Entrepreneurs to the US Whaling Industry, Abolition, and Other Civil Rights

Valerie Ellen Mock

40-62
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Mobility and Opportunity: Black Business Owners and Inventors Cross the US-Canada Borders

Adam Arenson

63-83
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A Comparative Portrait of Long-Run Racial Disparity in the United States and Brazil

Justin R. Bucciferro

84-110
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The Black Dollar in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore

Marcus Anthony Allen

111-131
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License to Exclude: Black Barbers in Arkansas Winner of the James Soltow Award for Best Paper in Essays 2023

Tanner Corley, Wendy Lucas, Marcus Witcher

132-148
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Bad Men, Good Roads, Jim Crow, and the Economics of Southern Chain Gangs

Howard Bodenhorn

149-170
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“The Race was on Trial”—Migrant Adjustment in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh During the Great Migration

Nina Banks

171-185
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“So why can’t they finance Black Power?” Howard Lamar Fuller’s Fight for Black Control of Black Housing in North Carolina, 1965-1969

Anthony M. Donaldson Jr.

186-207
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