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

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

Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait of slavery with detailed analyses of specific areas. This book looks at the conditions of slave life and the transition to freedom.

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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.