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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (14163)12/9/1997 2:55:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Okay, what do Fogel and Engerman actually postulate in "Time on the Cross"? And what do you want to say about the economics of slavery? Are you saying it was an EXPENSIVE source of labor? If so, then why do you think the practice of holding slaves continued?

I do think one of the things most people don't know is that slaves weren't mostly a function just of plantation life. Many Southern farmers were not wealthy men farming huge tracts of land, and they worked right alongside their slaves on relatively small plots.

I don't know enough about Eugene Genovese to decide whether I would find him interesting or not, but will look around at the bookstore. I am intrigued that you have thrown a Marxist historian into the mix. For anyone who might want to know more:

system.missouri.edu

You aren't just trying to throw me off balance, are you, Freddy? Some people would argue that I am unbalanced enough already!!! Of course, I disagree!!
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