Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross

by Herbert George Gutman

This detailed analysis of slavery in the antebellum South was written in 1975 in response to the prior year's publication of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's controversial Time on the Cross, which argued that slavery was an efficient and dynamic engine for the southern economy and that its success was due largely to the willing cooperation of the slaves themselves.

Noted labor historian Herbert G. Gutman was unconvinced, even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252071514
• ISBN13: 9780252071515
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"