Time On The Cross: The Economics Of American Negro Slavery, Volume 1

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WW Norton, Jan 3, 1995 - Business & Economics - 306 pages
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.

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Robert William Fogel, winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago.

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