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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... output of sugar grew rapidly , not only in these colonies but throughout the British West Indies . By 1770 the annual yield of the sugar crop in the British Caribbean territories stood at 130,000 tons , more than three times as much as ...
... output of sugar grew rapidly , not only in these colonies but throughout the British West Indies . By 1770 the annual yield of the sugar crop in the British Caribbean territories stood at 130,000 tons , more than three times as much as ...
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... output ? It was due , said Ramsdell , “ in part to the rapid building of railroads throughout the South toward the end of the decade , which brought new lands within reach of markets and increased the cotton acreage ; but part of the ...
... output ? It was due , said Ramsdell , “ in part to the rapid building of railroads throughout the South toward the end of the decade , which brought new lands within reach of markets and increased the cotton acreage ; but part of the ...
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... output to the average amount of the inputs . The higher the output per average unit of input , the greater the efficiency . The geometric index of total factor productivity was originally devised in the early 1940s . It was used , in a ...
... output to the average amount of the inputs . The higher the output per average unit of input , the greater the efficiency . The geometric index of total factor productivity was originally devised in the early 1940s . It was used , in a ...
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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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