<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition (C. Vann Woodward, <em>New York Review of Books</em>).<br /><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.<br /><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the special American problem - black slavery.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>With one stroke [this book] turned around a whole field of interpretation and exposed the frailty of history done without science.-- "New York Times Book Review"<br>
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