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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... economies of scale . And not all economies of scale were in production . Our measures indicate that plantations of moderate size in the New South ( sixteen to fifty slaves ) may have had certain advantages in production over very large ...
... economies of scale . And not all economies of scale were in production . Our measures indicate that plantations of moderate size in the New South ( sixteen to fifty slaves ) may have had certain advantages in production over very large ...
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... economies of scale in grain production ; and economies of scale appear to have been fairly limited in tobacco production . Thus , farms located in counties specializing in these crops grew little between 1790 and 1860. On the eve of the ...
... economies of scale in grain production ; and economies of scale appear to have been fairly limited in tobacco production . Thus , farms located in counties specializing in these crops grew little between 1790 and 1860. On the eve of the ...
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... Economies of scale in southern agriculture were achieved exclusively with slave labor . 2. While the urban demand for slave labor was quite elastic , the agricultural demand was very inelastic . The first finding is not new . Olmsted ...
... Economies of scale in southern agriculture were achieved exclusively with slave labor . 2. While the urban demand for slave labor was quite elastic , the agricultural demand was very inelastic . The first finding is not new . Olmsted ...
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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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