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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... Virginia contained slightly over two thirds of the entire black population . A century later , Virginia and Maryland still held over 56 percent of the slave population . The movement of the slave population away from its concentration ...
... Virginia contained slightly over two thirds of the entire black population . A century later , Virginia and Maryland still held over 56 percent of the slave population . The movement of the slave population away from its concentration ...
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... Virginia , he concluded that it took at least twice as many slaves as free northern laborers to accomplish any given task . This was true both of labor in the field and of domestic labor . In the case of wheat production , he reported ...
... Virginia , he concluded that it took at least twice as many slaves as free northern laborers to accomplish any given task . This was true both of labor in the field and of domestic labor . In the case of wheat production , he reported ...
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... Virginia Library , John M. Jennings of the Virginia Historical Society , Randolph W. Church of the Virginia State Library , Paul Hoffman and George Stevenson of the North Carolina State Department of Archives and History , the late Virginia ...
... Virginia Library , John M. Jennings of the Virginia Historical Society , Randolph W. Church of the Virginia State Library , Paul Hoffman and George Stevenson of the North Carolina State Department of Archives and History , the late Virginia ...
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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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Time On The Cross: The Economics Of American Negro Slavery, Volumen 1 Robert William Fogel,Stanley L Engerman Vista previa restringida - 1995 |
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