奴隶的可替代性:来自开普殖民地东部边界的证据

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Calumet Links, J. Fourie, E. Green
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奴隶劳动经济制度的可替代性通常被认为是既定的。除了一些资本投资来重新培训奴隶完成不同的任务外,他们的劳动基本上可以取代任何其他形式的劳动。本文通过对南非开普殖民地东部边境Graaff-Reinet地区的纵向研究,对这一假设提出了质疑。我们计算了22年的横断面税收数据集组合(1805–1828)中每年的希克斯互补系数弹性,以测试奴隶劳动是否可以替代其他形式的劳动。我们发现,在研究期间,奴隶劳动、土著劳动和定居者家庭劳动是不可替代的。这证明了奴隶劳动和家庭劳动是农业生产中两种不同的投入。在整个研究期间,土著khoe劳动和奴隶劳动仍然是互补的,即使在边境冲突后khoe劳动力变得稀缺。我们认为,奴隶劳动力的不可替代性是由于定居者需要获得具有特定地点技能的劳动力,如土著khoe,奴隶可能有非技术性劳动力来源之外的其他目的,如获得手工技能或抵押品。
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The substitutability of slaves: Evidence from the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony
ABSTRACT The substitutability of the economic institution of slave labour has often been assumed as a given. Apart from some capital investment to retrain slaves for a different task, essentially their labour could be substituted for any other form of labour. This paper questions that assumption by using a longitudinal study of the Graaff-Reinet district on the eastern frontier of South Africa’s Cape Colony. We calculate the Hicksian elasticity of complementarity coefficients for each year of a 22-year combination of cross-sectional tax datasets (1805–1828) to test whether slave labour was substitutable for other forms of labour. We find that slave labour, indigenous labour and settler family labour were not substitutable over the period of the study. This lends credence to the finding that slave and family labour were two different inputs in agricultural production. Indigenous khoe labour and slave labour remain complements throughout the period of the study even when khoe labour becomes scarce after the frontier conflicts. We argue that the non-substitutability of slave labour was due to the settlers’ need to acquire labourers with location-specific skills such as the indigenous khoe, and that slaves may have served a purpose other than as a source of unskilled labour, such as for artisan skills or for collateral.
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