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Historians in the News
4-17-15

What Economists Are Saying Now About Slavery

by Jonathan Pritchett and Charles Calomiris
Tulane’s Jonathan Pritchett and Columbia’s Charles Calomiris

This video features interview with two economists — Tulane’s Jonathan Pritchett and Columbia’s Charles Calomiris — who presented a paper about the economics of slavery at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on April 17, 2015. They were interviewed by the History News Network.