| 1974 | Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery and Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods--a Supplement. The authors receive the Bancroft Prize and generate a storm of controversy for their economic study of slavery, which asserts that on average slaves fared slightly better than comparable laborers in the North. Walter Clemons, in his review, declares that the book reworks popular conceptions of slavery "so drastically... that 'revisionist' is a feeble description of its thrust." Fogel was an economics professor at the University of Chicago; Engerman was a professor of economics and history at the University of Rochester. |
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