Time on the Cross The Economics of American Negro Slavery

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.Fogel, Robert W. is the author of 'Time on the Cross The Economics of American Negro Slavery', published 1985 under ISBN 9780819143310 and ISBN 0819143316.