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2 dni temu · Links to government publications which show consumer prices for common household items or Links to government documents and primary sources listing retail prices for products and services, as well as wages for common occupations.
4 dni temu · Includes evidence of American colonial consumer prices dating to the 1600s, including a Salem, Massachusetts grocery bill from 1629 showing soap, candles, etc. Source: History of manufactures in the United States, 1607-1860, starting with p. 136.
Many, if not most, of the goods produced for export (as opposed to local consumption) in the colonial era came at the expense of enslaved peoples working on sugar plantations across the West Indies, rice plantations in lowland Carolina, and tobacco plantations near Chesapeake Bay.
An examination of farm account books in the northern colonies has revealed that local price fluctuations moved in synchronization with prices in the principal port cities, suggesting a high degree of market integration.
2 dni temu · Links to government documents and primary sources listing retail prices for products and services, as well as wages for common occupations.
26 cze 2022 · Instead of making their own tools, clothes, and utensils, colonists increasingly purchased luxury items made by specialized artisans and manufacturers. As the incomes of Americans rose and the prices of these commodities fell, these items shifted from luxuries to common goods.
21 maj 2018 · Newspaper price currents, as well as prices compiled from probate inventories and merchant account books, become prevalent enough at various points in the eighteenth century to construct yearly price indices for some colonies.
