Time on the cross
by Robert William Fogel · first published 1974
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Supplemented by: "Evidence and methods, a supplement" (xi, 267 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.) published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1974. Call number: E449.F65 Suppl.
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…slaves, since they were a substantial investment of their owners. (The last part about the railroads is common in many libertarian books and I think, but am not sure, that it was in Fogel and Engerman's "Time on the Cross", an economic history of slavery.
on “"Marriage is for white people"” ↗…their own food on the worst strips of land not deemed worth cultivating by their owners. This is fairly thoughtless modern propaganda, not a description of the historical Deep South. Some quotes from Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery: > "Marriage is to be encouraged," wrote James H. Hammond to his overseer, "as it adds to the comfort, happiness, and health of those entering upon it, besides…
on “Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire” ↗Not so much. See "Time On the Cross". Very profitable, cotton slave plantationing was - it was the feedstock to the massive growth in British textiles, the Silicon Valley of its day. What drove slavery into the ... juggernaut it became…
on “The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule” ↗