Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery : Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom 
Subtitle: Technical Papers
Contributors: Stanley L. Engerman (Editor); Robert William Fogel (Editor)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: September 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780393027921
First sentence: Slavery is not only one of the most ancient but also one of the most long-lived forms of economic and social organization.