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Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Robert William Fogel

Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

Little Brown & Co. (Apr 1974)
9780316287005
| Paperback
286 pages | 135 x 221 mm | English
Dewey 331.117340973

Genre

  • Black Hist

Subject

  • Slavery - Economic Aspects - United States
  • Slavery Economic Aspects United States
  • Slavery/ Economic Aspects/ United States

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In this quantitative study, the authors calculate that economies of scale made chattel slavery immensely profitable and productive for Southern plantation owners, and that enslaved laborers had a higher standard of living than their counterparts on Northern farms. Upon its publication, the work was often criticized for minimizing the brutality and moral depravity of enslavement in America.

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