THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM: FERTILITY DECISIONS AND THE ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Allen, Treb
署名单位：
Northwestern University
刊物名称：
REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0034-6535
DOI：
10.1162/REST_a_00466
发表日期：
2015-05
页码：
472-484
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摘要：
This paper examines how the fertility of enslaved women was affected by the promise of freedom. Exploiting geographic variation in the effect of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, I demonstrate a negative correlation between fertility and the distance to freedom. This negative correlation is stronger on larger plantations but weaker when the slaveholder is a woman. A similar correlation is not present for white children, slave children with white fathers, or slave children born prior to the Fugitive Slave Law. The negative correlation suggests that the promise of freedom played an important role in the everyday lives of slaves.
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