Without Consent or Contract: Markets and Production, Technical Papers, Vol. I

by Robert William Fogel (Editor), Stanley L. Engerman (Editor)

Overview

The leading volume of this series included absorbing assessments of the efforts of slaves to shape their own culture, and traced the growth of the abolitionists from a handful of religious people, not given countenance by their church or government, into a powerful political force.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393027914
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/17/1992
Series:	Without Consent or Contract Series
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.