Slavery and the Numbers Game
Title | Slavery and the Numbers Game PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert George Gutman |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Enslaved persons |
ISBN | 9780252071515 |
This detailed analysis of slavery in the antebellum South was written in 1975 in response to the prior year's publication of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's controversial Time on the Cross, which argued that slavery was an efficient and dynamic engine for the southern economy and that its success was due largely to the willing cooperation of the slaves themselves. Noted labor historian Herbert G. Gutman was unconvinced, even outraged, by Fogel and Engerman's arguments. In this book he offers a systematic dissection of Time on the Cross, drawing on a wealth of data to contest that book's most fundamental assertions. A benchmark work of historical inquiry, Gutman's critique sheds light on a range of crucial aspects of slavery and its economic effectiveness. Gutman emphasizes the slaves' responses to their treatment at the hands of slaveowners. He shows that slaves labored, not because they shared values and goals with their masters, but because of the omnipresent threat of 'negative incentives,' primarily physical violence. In his introduction to this new edition, Bruce Levine provides a historical analysis of the debate over Time on the Cross. Levine reminds us of the continuing influence of the latter book, demonstrated by Robert W. Fogel's 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, and hence the importance and timeliness of Gutman's critique.
Slavery and the Numbers Game
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Playing the Numbers
Title | Playing the Numbers PDF eBook |
Author | Shane White |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2010-05-15 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9780674051072 |
The most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of “numbers.” Thousands of wagers were placed daily. Playing the Numbers tells the story of this illegal form of gambling and the central role it played in the lives of African Americans who flooded into Harlem in the wake of World War I.
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
Title | The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert G. Gutman |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 770 |
Release | 1977-07-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0394724518 |
An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.
Atlas of Slavery
Title | Atlas of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | James Walvin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2014-06-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317874161 |
Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present the story of slavery, explaining its historical importance and making this complex story and its geographical setting easy to understand.
A Crime So Monstrous
Title | A Crime So Monstrous PDF eBook |
Author | E. Benjamin Skinner |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2009-03-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0743290089 |
Based on four years of research in over a dozen countries across the globe, journalist Skinner provides a shocking expos of the inner workings of the modern-day slave trade. Maps.
The World According to Fannie Davis
Title | The World According to Fannie Davis PDF eBook |
Author | Bridgett M. Davis |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2019-01-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0316558710 |
As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride). In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts." A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.