Collins Holtkamp and Wanamaker Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) William Collins, Vanderbilt University; Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee; Nicholas Holtkamp, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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Project Citation: 

Collins, William, Wanamaker, Marianne , and Holtkamp, Nicholas. Collins Holtkamp and Wanamaker Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-08-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/E187441V3

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Summary:  View help for Summary Abstract: Large and persistent racial disparities in land-based wealth were an important legacy of the Reconstruction era.  To assess how these disparities were transmitted intergenerationally, we build a dataset to observe Black households’ landholdings in 1880 alongside a sample of White households. We then link sons from all households to the 1900 census records to observe their economic and human capital outcomes. We show that Black landowners (relative to laborers) transmitted substantial intergenerational advantages to their sons, including an 11 pp advantage in literacy. But such advantages were small relative to the racial gaps in metrics of economic status.





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