Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery : Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom : Technical Papers - Hardcover

 
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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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

Stanley L. Engerman is an economist and economic historian at the University of Rochester. His controversial writings on the economics of slavery with economist Robert Fogel were some of the first modern treatments of the subject.

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The papers collected in the two volumes of Technical Papers are the outgrowth of an inquiry into the economics and demography of slavery. The papers are a selection of the principal papers produced by collaborators in a research project that began nearly three decades ago on the economics of slavery.

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