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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... thesis . This thesis was derived from two subsidiary propositions . The first asserts that climate and soil set a limit to the geographic extension of the cotton culture and , hence , of slave agriculture . Charles Ramsdell , who was ...
... thesis . This thesis was derived from two subsidiary propositions . The first asserts that climate and soil set a limit to the geographic extension of the cotton culture and , hence , of slave agriculture . Charles Ramsdell , who was ...
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... thesis holds that the rise in ratio of slave labor to land eventually would have reduced the value of a slave to less than his subsistence cost . The rise in the laborto - land ratio seemed assured , since the land suitable for cotton ...
... thesis holds that the rise in ratio of slave labor to land eventually would have reduced the value of a slave to less than his subsistence cost . The rise in the laborto - land ratio seemed assured , since the land suitable for cotton ...
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... thesis itself . Given the requirement that the proportion of the labor force devoted to cotton remain constant , and given the constancy in the labor - force participation rate , the rate of growth of slave labor devoted to cotton would ...
... thesis itself . Given the requirement that the proportion of the labor force devoted to cotton remain constant , and given the constancy in the labor - force participation rate , the rate of growth of slave labor devoted to cotton would ...
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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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