Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery - Paperback

by Robert William Fogel (Author), Stanley L. Engerman (Author)

In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.

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Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the special American problem - black slavery.