Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery 
Subtitle: Evidence and Methods
Contributors: Ralph A. Galantine (Editor); Robert William Fogel (Editor); Richard L. Manning (Editor); Nicholas Scott Cardell (Editor)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: September 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780393027907
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.