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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... decline in the relative share of 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 ...
... decline in the relative share of 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 ...
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... decline was not just relative . During the decade preceding the Civil War , the slave population of the ten cities dropped by nine thousand , or 12 percent . For some cities the absolute decline was not just limited to the 1850s ...
... decline was not just relative . During the decade preceding the Civil War , the slave population of the ten cities dropped by nine thousand , or 12 percent . For some cities the absolute decline was not just limited to the 1850s ...
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... declining fertility of lands worked by slaves . These “ facts ” implied the general inefficiency of slave agriculture and the steady decline in output per capita within the agricultural sector . Hence , he also accepted the last two ...
... declining fertility of lands worked by slaves . These “ facts ” implied the general inefficiency of slave agriculture and the steady decline in output per capita within the agricultural sector . Hence , he also accepted the last two ...
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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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