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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... southern United States . This represented over 36 percent of all of the slaves in the Western world in that year . Despite its peripheral role in the Atlantic slave trade the U.S. was , during the three decades preceding the Civil War ...
... southern United States . This represented over 36 percent of all of the slaves in the Western world in that year . Despite its peripheral role in the Atlantic slave trade the U.S. was , during the three decades preceding the Civil War ...
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... southern United States were freed under programs of gradual emancipation . These schemes usually involved the freeing , not of adults , but of children born on some date after the emancipation law was enacted . Moreover , the freeing of ...
... southern United States were freed under programs of gradual emancipation . These schemes usually involved the freeing , not of adults , but of children born on some date after the emancipation law was enacted . Moreover , the freeing of ...
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... southern United States , slavery continued with > undiminished vigor . Indeed , in this region it became 36 / THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF U.S. SLAVERY.
... southern United States , slavery continued with > undiminished vigor . Indeed , in this region it became 36 / THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF U.S. SLAVERY.
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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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Términos y frases comunes
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