Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, Volumen 1University Press of America, 1984 - 286 páginas This book, originally published in 1974 by Little, Brown and Company, is a sweeping reexamination of the economic foundations of American Negro slavery. Based upon a vast research effort, this volume constitutes an entirely new portrayal of slavery's past. It challenges traditional assumptions about the material condition and management of slaves, their work habits, domestic welfare, and the economy of the antebellum South in general |
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... Africans in the U.S. Negro population during the last half of the eighteenth century was not due to a decline in imports . With the exception of the decade of the American Revolution , which brought with it a short decline in all ...
... Africans in the U.S. Negro population during the last half of the eighteenth century was not due to a decline in imports . With the exception of the decade of the American Revolution , which brought with it a short decline in all ...
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... Africans in the slave population also served to reduce the birthrate in the Caribbean territories . For males and females were not brought to the New World in equal numbers . Less than 40 percent of imports were female . Even if African ...
... Africans in the slave population also served to reduce the birthrate in the Caribbean territories . For males and females were not brought to the New World in equal numbers . Less than 40 percent of imports were female . Even if African ...
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... African birthrate much too low to offset the very high African death rate . The relative importance of various social , cultural , and physiological factors in explaining the low fertility rates of Africans is obscure . Emotional shock ...
... African birthrate much too low to offset the very high African death rate . The relative importance of various social , cultural , and physiological factors in explaining the low fertility rates of Africans is obscure . Emotional shock ...
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Prologue Slavery and the Cliometric Revolution | 3 |
One The International Context of U S Slavery | 13 |
Four The Anatomy of Exploitation | 107 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Time On The Cross: The Economics Of American Negro Slavery, Volumen 1 Robert William Fogel,Stanley L Engerman Vista previa restringida - 1995 |
Time On The Cross: The Economics Of American Negro Slavery Robert William Fogel,Stanley L Engerman No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1995 |
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