Time On The Cross: The Economics Of American Negro Slavery, Band 1W. W. Norton & Company, 03.01.1995 - 306 Seiten 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" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books). In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate. |
Inhalt
The International Context of United States Slavery | 13 |
Occupations and Markets | 38 |
Profits and Prospects | 59 |
The Anatomy of Exploitation | 107 |
The Origins of the Economic Indictment of Slavery | 158 |
Paradoxes of Forced Labor | 191 |
Implications for Our Time | 258 |
Afterword 1989 | 265 |
Acknowledgments | 276 |
Sources of Direct Quotations | 282 |
References | 285 |
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Time On The Cross: The Economics Of American Negro Slavery Robert William Fogel,Stanley L Engerman Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1995 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abolitionist Africans agriculture American antebellum South antislavery Atlantic slave trade average blacks Brazil Cairnes capita income Caribbean census century cities cliometric cliometricians clothing Conrad and Meyer conspicuous consumption consumption cost cotton production crop decade decline demand for slaves Distribution drivers earnings economic indictment economies of scale efficiency Emancipation Engerman evidence exploitation female fertility rates field hands Figure Fogel free labor Galantine gang growth Helper historians increase interregional issues John Elliott Cairnes labor force land large plantations less male slaves masters mulattoes natural Negro North Northern Farms Old South Olmsted Olmsted's output overseers owners pecuniary percent Phillips planters price of slaves profit ratio relative Robert William Fogel sexual slave economy slave family slave labor slave population Slave Power slave prices slave system slave trade slaveholders slaveowners Slavery Abolished soil southern southern United Stampp sugar tion U.S. slaves urban whipping workers
