Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery: Economics of American Negro Slavery: Amazon.de: Robert William Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman: Englische Bücher

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First published in 1974, this reissue examines the economic foundations of American slavery in the light of recent scholarship and debate.

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First published in 1974, this reissue examines the economic foundations of American slavery in the light of recent scholarship and debate.

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The years of black enslavement and the Civil War in which they terminated were our nations time on the cross. Lesen Sie die erste Seite

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4.0 von 5 Sternen An Econometric Approach to Slavery, 12. Februar 2000

Von	Sean Carroll (Marietta, GA) - Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen

This book is a must read for any students of Economic History. Rather than using a traditional approach to history, the book uses a particularly mathematical approach to the economics of slavery. Its conclusions are based collected data. Some of the books conclusions may bother people. Such as the implications that explotation of slaves can be mitigated by the money they receive during the course of their life. It also offers evidence that certain henious practices such as breeding, and sexual relationships between master and slave, were not as wide-spread as is commonly believed. It also attacks the notion that any modern family problems, specifically the commonality single parent homes, can be attributed to the purposeful degredation of the family unit by slave holders. This book does not try to convince people that slavery was an acceptable economic system. I believe its intent was to make the readers better informed about slavery. I would hope that the reader realizes the true evil of slavery was not the conditions associated with it, but rather depriving others of their freedom for economic gain.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Time on the Cross shatters myths about slavery in America, 23. November 1998

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This is one of the best books I've ever read on American negro slavery. What makes it a valuable edition to the academic literature is that the authors did not go into this with any ideological axes to grind. Indeed, both are political liberals who thoroughly deprecate the institution of slavery as a social and moral evil. They simply wanted to attain a better understanding of the actual economics of slavery in the Old South by analyzing the Plantation Books (i.e. the financial logs of Southern planters) and other relevant statistical resources so as to be able to accurately assess what slavery was like and how it affected the slave, the master and Southern society as a whole.

Much to their surprise, the authors concluded that slavery, as it was, bore little resemblance to the fictional, fever-swamp, nonsense that is peddled by the NAACP, the liberal media, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and left-wing academics. They found that slaves had a better diet and better housing conditions than their wage-slave, immigrant counterparts in the North. They also found that slave families were rarely broken up and that miscagenation between masters and slaves was exceeedingly rare -- indeed, almost nonexistant. They also found that many slaves earned substantial incomes - a fact that surprises many people who believe that slaves did not earn money for their labour. I could go on and on but that would give away the book and ruin the joy of reading a text that absolutely blows away virtually all the "conventional wisdom" you've ever heard repeated about slavery in the Old South.

Anyone who really wants to learn the truth about slavery owes it to themselves to buy and read this book.

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5.0 von 5 Sternen Shatters old myths!, 10. Januar 2000

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This is an excellent study of the economics of chattel slavery, and shatters a number of cherished liberal myths.

While I'm on the subject, I'd like to ask Brad Fuller a question:

If the author's methodolgy is so flawed, why is he a Nobel laureate in economics, principally for his work on this book?

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1.0 von 5 Sternen Tells the Unreconstructed what they want to hear!
Time on the Cross is seriously flawed. While the intent behind it is honest, the outcome of this project is a gold mine for Confederate apologists. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 13. Februar 2000 von Thomas Veil

1.0 von 5 Sternen Time on the Cross : The Economics of American Negro Slavery.
This book is offensive and you can tweak and make up numbers all you want. African-Americans have a strong tradition of passing on oral history to their children. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 17. Januar 2000 ver�ffentlicht

2.0 von 5 Sternen Flawed methodology & boneheaded interpretation
The reviews below present the findings of this book as unproblematic and uncontested. In fact, publication of this book in 74 caused a firestorm of debate and criticism. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 24. Dezember 1999 von Brad Fuller

5.0 von 5 Sternen Any Study of the Subject of Slavery Should Start Here
It explodes every myth, and there are scores, about slavery. Using the raw data lying dormant and too cumbersome prior to the appearance of high speed computers the Nobel Laureate... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 23. Dezember 1999 von Steve Quick

5.0 von 5 Sternen Avant-Garde Economic Interpetation of American Slavery
Fogel and Engerman challenge the traditional conception of slavery has being a non-productive system but a highly competitive system of human labor. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 9. November 1999 ver�ffentlicht

5.0 von 5 Sternen Excellent in destroying the myth of the oppressed slaves
This is an excellent econometric study of the institution of Southern slavery, showing it to be relatively benign in the South (whereas in other countries it could be hideously... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 16. Dezember 1998 von nedrium

5.0 von 5 Sternen Startling, quantitative reveiw of Slavery in the South
Messrs. Fogel (a Nobel laureate) and Engelman report on the most massive, in-depth study of slavery ever conducted. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 27. Januar 1998 ver�ffentlicht

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