Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, Volumen 1First 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). |
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The International Context of United States Slavery | 13 |
Occupations and Markets | 38 |
Profits and Prospects | 59 |
The Anatomy of Exploitation | 107 |
The Origins of the Economic Indictment of Slavery | 158 |
Paradoxes of Forced Labor | 191 |
Implications for Our Time | 258 |
Afterword 1989 | 265 |
Acknowledgments | 276 |
Sources of Direct Quotations | 282 |
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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, Volumen 1 Robert William Fogel,Stanley L. Engerman Vista de fragmentos - 1984 |
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