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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... average . But , for reasons considered in detail below , over the period from 1820 through 1860 , there was no secular trend in the level of profits away from the average . The discovery of a high and persistent rate of profit on slaves ...
... average . But , for reasons considered in detail below , over the period from 1820 through 1860 , there was no secular trend in the level of profits away from the average . The discovery of a high and persistent rate of profit on slaves ...
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... average annual amount of this expropriation over the life cycle of the entire slave population is an extremely complex matter . For the rate of expropriation differed from slave to slave , as well as from year to year for particular ...
... average annual amount of this expropriation over the life cycle of the entire slave population is an extremely complex matter . For the rate of expropriation differed from slave to slave , as well as from year to year for particular ...
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... average value of an acre of northern land in 1850 at $ 28.07 , while the average value of a southern acre was $ 5.34 . What explained the difference of $ 22.73 ? Since southern land was equal to , or better than , northern land in ...
... average value of an acre of northern land in 1850 at $ 28.07 , while the average value of a southern acre was $ 5.34 . What explained the difference of $ 22.73 ? Since southern land was equal to , or better than , northern land in ...
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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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