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American History
Slavery in these United States
Slavery: An Overview of the Peculiar Institution in these United States
“For many readers of this journal,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Carl N. Degler, the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University, “the extensive and lengthy historical examination of slavery over the last thirty-five or more years may well seem overwhelming. … In the judgement of Peter J. Parish, director of the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London, the flood of scholarship ‘has been one of the greatest historical endeavours of modern times.’”[1] [2]
Parish is of course not the only historian that has penned works pertaining to slavery in these United States. Other significant historians, many of which are considered by their peers as being giants in their respective fields of study, include but is not limited to Robert W. Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman, Donald E. Fehrenbacher, Paul Finkelman, Eugene D. Genovese, Ulrich B. Phillips, and Kenneth M. Stampp.
The publication of Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, co-authored by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, as University of Chicago sociology professor William J. Wilson observed, firmly placed the discussion over the peculiar…
