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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... planter or his overseer . Planters sought to be , and overseers were expected to be , knowledgeable about current medical procedures and about drugs and their administration . Physicians were regularly brought onto the plantations to ...
... planter or his overseer . Planters sought to be , and overseers were expected to be , knowledgeable about current medical procedures and about drugs and their administration . Physicians were regularly brought onto the plantations to ...
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... planters were able to achieve a degree of specialization and efficiency that was unmatched elsewhere in agriculture . This aspect of plantation organization is considered in chapter 6 . The other organization of central importance was ...
... planters were able to achieve a degree of specialization and efficiency that was unmatched elsewhere in agriculture . This aspect of plantation organization is considered in chapter 6 . The other organization of central importance was ...
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... planters , and the legal status given to the slave family under plantation law , cannot be lightly dismissed . Recognition of the dualistic nature of the southern legal structure puts into a different perspective the emphasis which some ...
... planters , and the legal status given to the slave family under plantation law , cannot be lightly dismissed . Recognition of the dualistic nature of the southern legal structure puts into a different perspective the emphasis which some ...
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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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