Economics_of_American_Negro_Slavery

Economics of American Negro Slavery Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s book Time on the Cross, analyzes the Southern economy before and after the Civil War. The book’s purpose is to show how important African Americans were to the Southern economy, and tries to “correct the perversion of the history of blacks – in order to strike down the view that black Americans were without culture, without achievement, and without development for their first two hundred and fifty years on American soil.” The authors believe that historians and abolitionists before World War II were racist who believed African Americans were inferior to whites. They believed that blacks were lazy and lied to get out of work. Fogel and Engerman try to provide an analysis of the Southern economy to show that the blacks were great workers with a strong family core and a strong sense of culture. The first chapter of the book discusses the history of the slave trade in the western hemisphere. The transportation of slaves to the new world began in 1502 and the end did not come till the 1860’s. During this time, the largest importer of slaves slaves, slave, slavery, southern, blacks, because, about, cotton, believed, plantations, good, book, owners, even, population, economy, south, fogel, world, work, system, production, new, labor, engerman, white, war, time, plantation, increase, history, family, families, fact, data, chapter, brought, black, workers, without, three, show, return, rates, producing, inferior, given, civil, amount, years