The United States and the countries of Latin America were all
colonized by Europeans, yet in terms of economic development, the
U.S. far outstripped Latin America beginning in the nineteenth
century. Observers have often tried to account for this disparity,
many of them claiming that differences in cultural attitudes toward
work explain the U.S.'s greater prosperity. In this innovative
study, however, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view
that North Americans succeeded because of the so-called Protestant
work ethic and argues instead that they prospered relative to South
Americans because of differences in attitudes toward workers that
evolved in the colonial era.
Townsend builds her study around workers' lives in two similar
port cities in the 1820s and 1830s. Through the eyes of the young
Frederick Douglass in Baltimore, Maryland, and an Indian girl named
Ana Yagual in Guayaquil, Ecuador, she shows how differing attitudes
toward race and class in North and South America affected local
ways of doing business. This empirical research clarifies the
significant relationship between economic culture and racial
identity and its long-term effects
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