Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery & Time On the Cross Evidence and Methods. Two Volumes.
First Editions of Time on the Cross; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Fogel in Both Volumes
Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery & Time On the Cross Evidence and Methods. Two Volumes.
FOGEL, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman.
$800.00
Item Number: 114451
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974.
First edition of this work which attracted widespread attention in the media and generated heated controversy and criticism for its methodology and conclusions. Octavo, original brown cloth, 2 volumes. Both volumes are signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist, “RW Fogel 3/18/10.” Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Sarah L. Bindari.
Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking books 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, New York Review of Books).
