Essays about: "Eva Forslund"

Found 1 essay containing the words Eva Forslund.

  1. 1. Did Segregation Reduce Lethal Violence Against Southern Blacks? : A Generalized Difference-in-Differences Approach to Understand Lynchings and Executions in the US South

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Eva Forslund; [2020]
    Keywords : institutional economics; slavery; lethal violence; lynchings; executions; disenfranchisement; segregation;

    Abstract : Up until the mid 1860s, an overwhelming majority of blacks in the US South were held in chattel slavery, from which they were freed after a Civil War (1861-1865). A recurring argument in institutional economics is that the institution of slavery did not disappear, but took other forms, e.g. segregation and violence. READ MORE