Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974.
First edition. Signed by co-author Stanley Engerman on front free endpaper. xviii, 286 pp. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Edges lightly foxed, else Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, light shelf wear, tiny nick to fore edge of back panel.
Two economists' examination of the economics of American slavery, which garnered lots of controversy and media attention-- much more than the average economic monograph. It won the Bancroft Prize in American history. Fogel would later win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993. Engerman is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester.
Price: $400.00
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