All We Would Want to Know (review of Without Consent or Contract, by Robert William Fogel)

Since Robert Fogel (with Stanley L. Engerman) published Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974), Professor Fogel has been the acknowledged authority on the institutional and economic history of American slaves: what they did, day by day, and under what conditions they performed; who owned slaves, how they were acquired, and what they cost; the physical circumstances of their lives, their utility, and their practical history. Indeed, Fogel has given the American intellectual community not only all it would wish to know about slavery, but, as I concluded in reviewing Time on the Cross in these pages (March 28, 1975), a good deal more than it was and is ready to digest.

Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery, by Robert William Fogel (Norton, 539 pp., $39.95)

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About the Author

M. E. Bradford

Since Robert Fogel (with Stanley L. Engerman) published Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974), Professor Fogel has been the acknowledged authority on the institutional and economic history of American slaves: what they did, day by day, and under what conditions they performed; who owned slaves, how they were acquired, and what they cost; the physical circumstances of their lives, their utility, and their practical history. Indeed, Fogel has given the American intellectual community not only all it would wish to know about slavery, but, as I concluded in reviewing Time on the Cross in these pages (March 28, 1975), a good deal more than it was and is ready to digest.

Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery, by Robert William Fogel (Norton, 539 pp., $39.95)