Enslaved labor in the US, 1619–1865: present value and what it would buy in land

A clinical estimate of the value of the labor only, priced at free-market unskilled wages and brought to 2025 dollars at a chosen real interest rate. Purchases go to non-family corporate farmland first, then partnerships and family-held corporations, then family farms, then other non-federal land. Federal land and tribal/trust farmland are excluded. Assumptions and sources: METHODOLOGY · QA report.