Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
by Robert William Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman
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Author: Robert William Fogel, Stanley L. EngermanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-03
ISBN: 0393312186
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Book Review: Read Gutman's Slavery & The Numbers Game first.
Summary: 1 Stars
You really need to read Herbert Gutman's Slavery & The Numbers Game (1975; republished 2003) alongside this work. Gutman undoes virtually all of Fogel and Engerman's data and claims regarding the social aspects of slavery (violence, punishments, family separation, etc.). Fogel & Engerman's data, in many cases, was extremely thin, as was their logic in interpreting much of the data, as Gutman demonstrated. None of Fogel and Engerman's social claims (minimal punishments, minimal separations) stand up, though many of their economic claims (profitability, flexibility) still do. Fogel revised some of their work in Without Consent or Contract. Time on the Cross should be read as a first draft attempt at quantitative history, not the final word.
Summary of Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
First published in 1974, this reissue examines the economic foundations of American slavery in the light of recent scholarship and debate.Labor & Industrial Relations Books
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