caa a22 4500 386368503 CHVBK 20180307111945.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3115426 doi S0007680500042768 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3115426 Kenzer Robert C. Robert C. Kenzer is assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University. The Black Businessman in the Postwar South: North Carolina, 1865-1880 [Elektronische Daten] [Robert C. Kenzer] This article uses the R. G. Dun and Company credit ratings to analyze North Carolina black businessmen and their firms in the fifteen years following the Civil War. When combined with data in local histories and in the federal census, the credit ratings reveal how the postbellum black business community, especially the mulatto population, was significantly shaped by antebellum emancipation. Blacks who shared the advantage of prewar freedom employed their superior financial resources and business experience to dominate their local economies after the war. Further, both as individuals and collectively, blacks used their newly acquired political power to foster economic opportunities in ways hitherto unrecognized by both political and business history scholars. Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1989 Business History Review Cambridge University Press 63/1(1989), 61-87 0007-6805 63:1<61 1989 63 BHR https://doi.org/10.2307/3115426 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3115426 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kenzer Robert C. Robert C. Kenzer is assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Business History Review Cambridge University Press 63/1(1989), 61-87 0007-6805 63:1<61 1989 63 BHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge