num_pages: 336
description: 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.
language: English
title: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
titlecomplete: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
genres: Business, American, Grad School, Nonfiction, American History, Economics, 19th Century, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 231
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Bancroft Prize
publisher: W.W. Norton & Company