caa a22 4500 386368589 CHVBK 20180307111946.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3115425 doi S0007680500042756 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3115425 Schweninger Loren Loren Schweninger is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Black-Owned Businesses in the South, 1790-1880 [Elektronische Daten] [Loren Schweninger] This essay analyzes the changing configuration of black-owned businesses in the South over nearly a century. It divides the region into two sections—the Lower South and the Upper South—and examines changes that occurred prior to 1840, during the late antebellum era, and as a result of the Civil War. It uses a "wealth model” to define various business groups, and then creates business occupational categories based on the listings in various sources, including the U.S. censuses for 1850, 1860, and 1870. The article compares and contrasts the wealth holdings among various groups of blacks in business, and it analyzes, within a comparative framework, slave entrepreneurship, rural vs. urban business activity, color—black or mulatto—as a variable in business ownership, and slave ownership among blacks engaged in business. Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1989 Business History Review Cambridge University Press 63/1(1989), 22-60 0007-6805 63:1<22 1989 63 BHR https://doi.org/10.2307/3115425 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3115425 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schweninger Loren Loren Schweninger is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Business History Review Cambridge University Press 63/1(1989), 22-60 0007-6805 63:1<22 1989 63 BHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge