Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery : Evidence and Methods - Hardcover

 
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"Few historians have more skillfully integrated economic with social, intellectual and political history to demonstrate both the importance and the limits of economic developments—the material reality and the perception of it.... Pleasurable as well as instructive reading for anyone interested in the most fateful of our national crimes and the most fearful of our national crises.... [A] splendid book." —Eugene D. Genovese, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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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.

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Dramatically presented the rise and fall of the 'peculiar institution, ' as the abolitionist movement rose into a powerful political force that pulled down seemingly invulnerable system and captured the presidency.

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