Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro SlaveryThis book offers a comprehensive critique of the view of slavery as found in Fogel and Engerman's Time on the cross. |
Contents
A Humanistic Perspective | 1 |
ONE Capitalist Masters Bourgeois Slaves | 33 |
On Masters | 39 |
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American antebellum South argue argument assertion assumption authors average Barrow behavior birth calculation Calderhead's calories cited cliometrics consumption corn cotton cowpeas crop Cross demand difference economic efficiency Engerman's estimate ethic evidence farms field hands figure Fogel and Engerman Fogel-Engerman Gallman historians income infant mortality inferences inputs Louisiana marriages Maryland masters migration milligrams mulatto Negro niacin northern northern farm number of slaves occupational Olmsted Orleans output overseers owners Parker-Gallman sample percent percentage plantation records planters Plaquemines Parish pork pounds procedure production profit Protestant work ethic quantitative rate of exploitation ratio records regions relative reported sexual slave diet slave family slave labor slave marriages slave population slave prices slave sales slave trade slave women slaveholders slaveowners slavery social sold sources Stampp Stanley Engerman statistical suggest Sutch sweet potatoes Table thiamine tion tryptophan typical slave USPO weight whipped workers