Without Consent or Contract – Markets and Production, Technical Papers, Vol. I - Hardcover

Fogel, Robert William; Engerman, Stanley L.

 
9780393027914: Without Consent or Contract – Markets and Production, Technical Papers, Vol. I

Synopsis

Written to accompany "Without Consent or Contract", this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait of slavery with detailed analyses of specific areas. This book looks at markets and production.

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About the Authors

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.

From the Back Cover

The leading volume of this series included absorbing assessments of the efforts of slaves to shape their own culture, and traced the growth of the abolitionists from a handful of religious people, not given countenance by their church or government, into a powerful political force.

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