Without Consent or Contract: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom, Technical Papers, Vol. II: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery, Technical Papers: 002 - Hardcover

Fogel, Robert William

 
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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 the conditions of slave life and the transition to freedom.

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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 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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