Without Consent or Contract: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom, Technical Papers, Vol. II

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

Overview

The papers collected in the two volumes of Technical Papers are the outgrowth of an inquiry into the economics and demography of slavery. The papers are a selection of the principal papers produced by collaborators in a research project that began nearly three decades ago on the economics of slavery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393027921
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/17/1992
Series:	Technical Paper Series
Pages:	396
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.