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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

By Stanley L. Engerman , Robert William Fogel

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
1995
ISBN
0393312186, 9780393312188
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
311 MB (326383069 bytes)
Pages
306\336
Topic
History
Time added
2022-07-02 18:49:56

Description

"With one stroke [this book] turned around a whole field of interpretation and exposed the frailty of history done without science" (New York Times Book Review). First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books). In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate. Prologue. Slavery and the Cliometric Revolution 1. The International Context of U.S. Slavery 2. Occupations and Markets 3. Profits and Prospects 4. The Anatomy of Exploitation 5. The Origins of the Economic Indictment of Slavery 6. Paradoxes of Forced Labor Epilogue. Implications for Our Time Afterword 1989 Acknowledgments Sources of Direct Quotations References Index

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