1754-1783: Business and the Economy
1754-1783: Chapter Three: Business and the Economy
by ROWENA OLEGARIO
CONTENTS
CHRONOLOGY 46
OVERVIEW 52
TOPICS IN THE NEWS
Agriculture 56
Business Structures 59
Manufacturing and Processing 61
Colonial Maufactured and Processed Goods 62
Merchants 63
Principal Exports from the British Continental Colonies, 1770 65
The Colonists’ Trading Partners, 1768-1772 66
Paying for Goods and Services 67
Wealth Distribution: Average for All Wealth Holders, 1774 70
Slavery 70
War and the Economy 72
Slave Imports into British America and the United States, 1626-1810 72
War and Government 75
Depreciation of Old Continental Currency 75
HEADLINE MAKERS
John Hancock 78
PUBLICATIONS 83
Sidebars and tables are listed in italics.
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