A probing analysis of the American institution of slavery examines the lives of the slaves, their condition and treatment, the economic repercussions of subjugation, the culture and society surrounding them, and abolitionist movement that helped bring about the end of slavery
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Robert William Fogel, winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago.
Dramatically presented the rise and fall of the 'peculiar institution, ' as the abolitionist movement rose into a powerful political force that pulled down seemingly invulnerable system and captured the presidency.
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