GUEST OVERVIEW: Dr Phillip W. Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is an economic historian specializing in the “long” 19th century United States, as well as general macroeconomic trends. He is a leading expert on black colonization during the Civil War era, and its sometimes-strained relationship with the African-American emigrationist movement of the same period. He studies the political economy of slavery in the Atlantic world, and particularly its relationship to public policy.
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