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Round 13: Tossup 11

David Eltis et al. created a database on this practice (10[1])that allowed Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon to link it to current differences in trust levels. (10[2])Evsey Domar hypothesized that this practice is caused by high shadow wages due to scarce labor. This practice’s “pushing system” enabled higher quotas according (10[1])to Edward E. Baptist’s study The Half Has (10[1])Never Been Told. This practice is called a form of parasitism in a comparative (-5[1])study by Orlando Patterson. (10[1])In Marxist theory, agriculture and this practice characterize the “ancient” mode of production superseded (10[1])by feudalism. (10[1])Fogel (10[1])and Engerman argued for the economic (10[2])efficiency (10[1]-5[1])of this (10[1])practice (10[1]-5[1])in Time on the Cross. For 10 points, William A. Darity Jr. proposed that descendants of what practice’s victims (10[1])should be compensated (10[2])with (10[1])reparations? (10[2])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: slavery [or chattel slavery or word forms; accept slave trade; accept serfdom or forced labor or labor coercion or word forms; accept Slavery and Social Death] (Several economic historians criticized Baptist for misinterpreting a graph showing an increase in productivity driven by a Mexican cotton cultivar.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Jakob Myers	Indiana	NYU A	9	10
Andrei Hui	Cambridge	Texas	25	10
Christopher Sims	Northwestern A	UC Berkeley B	25	10
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State	Virginia	49	10
Nathaniel Hull	UC Berkeley A	Harvard	57	10
Olin Bose	Columbia B	Johns Hopkins	71	-5
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Penn State	75	10
Ben Hellman	Swarthmore	North Carolina	89	10
Sky Li	Toronto A	Chicago A	91	10
Evan Gniadek	Purdue	Chicago B	92	10
Akshar Goyal	Illinois A	MIT	98	10
Jaskaran Singh	UCLA	Toronto B	98	10
Mattias Ehatamm	Maryland A	Columbia A	99	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU B	Rutgers	99	-5
Joel Miles	Minnesota	WashU	101	10
Kevin Cronk	Virginia Tech	Stanford A	102	-5
Michael Du	Waterloo	Brown	102	10
Jacky Xu	Cornell	UCF	121	10
Matthew Wang	British Columbia	Pittsburgh	124	10
Hadley Green	Northwestern B	Illinois B	124	10
Cole Hartung	Georgetown	Maryland B	125	10
Sinecio Morales	Johns Hopkins	Columbia B	126	10
Gavin Markoff	Vanderbilt	Georgia Tech C	126	10
Tianyu Xu	Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	127	10
Aiden Dartley	Rutgers	NYU B	127	10
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford A	Virginia Tech	127	10
Ethan Bosita	Stanford B	Michigan	127	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
Main Site	2026-04-17	✓	24	100%	13%	94.33