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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... labor force employed in cotton farming , the cost of slave maintenance , and the market rate of interest . The values of all these variables for the post - Civil War era are known — except the rate of growth of the slave labor force ...
... labor force employed in cotton farming , the cost of slave maintenance , and the market rate of interest . The values of all these variables for the post - Civil War era are known — except the rate of growth of the slave labor force ...
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... labor force ) . In the free economy – North and South – approximately one third of the population was in the labor force . Among slaves , the labor - force participation rate was two thirds . Virtually every slave capable of being in ...
... labor force ) . In the free economy – North and South – approximately one third of the population was in the labor force . Among slaves , the labor - force participation rate was two thirds . Virtually every slave capable of being in ...
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... labor - force participation rate . With 67 percent of all slaves in the labor force , nearly a third of the labor force was composed of untrained , awkward children . A smaller but significant proportion consisted of elderly persons and ...
... labor - force participation rate . With 67 percent of all slaves in the labor force , nearly a third of the labor force was composed of untrained , awkward children . A smaller but significant proportion consisted of elderly persons and ...
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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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