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What were the net economic effects of the Black Death like for a French peasant living in the 1390s? Did the negative effects such as reduced trade and population outweigh the positive effects such as reduced pressure on resources and increased money supply and demand for labor?

by /u/ManicMarine in /r/AskHistorians

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