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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... limited for women . About 80 percent of slave women labored in the fields . Virtually all of the 20 percent who were exempt from field tasks worked as house servants or in such quasi - domestic positions as seamstresses and nurses ...
... limited for women . About 80 percent of slave women labored in the fields . Virtually all of the 20 percent who were exempt from field tasks worked as house servants or in such quasi - domestic positions as seamstresses and nurses ...
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... limited to the South . And within the South , sexual exploitation by white men was not limited to black women . The point at issue here is not whether the sexual exploitation of slave women by masters and overseers existed , but whether ...
... limited to the South . And within the South , sexual exploitation by white men was not limited to black women . The point at issue here is not whether the sexual exploitation of slave women by masters and overseers existed , but whether ...
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... limited capacity to retain the minerals on which fertility depends . This situation is further aggravated by leaching of the soil due to heavy rainfalls , and by the absence of winter freezes which retain water and minerals in the soil ...
... limited capacity to retain the minerals on which fertility depends . This situation is further aggravated by leaching of the soil due to heavy rainfalls , and by the absence of winter freezes which retain water and minerals in the soil ...
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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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