Race, Literacy, and Real Estate Transactions in the Postbellum South
利用1880年田纳西州房地产交易数据，研究非裔美国人土地积累的障碍，发现种植园地区与非种植园地区的购买率差异不大，但非裔美国人支付了更高的土地价格，而识字率能部分缓解这种种族价格歧视。
This article examines barriers that impeded the accumulation of land by African Americans in the postbellum South with a new data set of real estate transactions from 1880 Tennessee. We find that rates of purchase by African Americans differed little between plantation and non-plantation regions. We also find that parcels sold in plantation regions were relatively small, suggesting that African American accumulation of land was not hindered by plantation owners refusing to subdivide their properties. Additionally, we find blacks paid more than whites per acre of quality-constant land, although literacy at least partially mitigated the racial price discrimination.