What Changes in Labor Arrangements Occurred on the Barrow Plantation

question 67

Essay

What changes in labor arrangements occurred on the Barrow plantation in the sixteen years after the Civil War? What aspects of plantation life after Reconstruction remained similar to what had existed before the Civil War?

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Definitions:

Complementary Good

A complementary good is a product or service that adds value to another product or service when both are used together, leading to an increase in demand for one when the price of the other decreases.

Inferior Good

An inferior good is one where demand decreases as the income of the consumer increases, opposed to a normal good where demand increases with an increase in income.

Price Elasticity

A determination of how price fluctuations affect the demand level for a good.

Demand Coefficient

A numerical measure of the sensitivity of demand for a good or service to a change in one of its determinants, such as price, income, or the price of related goods.