
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Robert William Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman
First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition"
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- University Press of America
- Year
- 1984
- ISBN-13
- 9780393312188
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- American slaveryEconomics of slaveryAntebellum South
Awards
- Bancroft PrizeWon(1975)
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