First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books ).
In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.
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奴隶对大多数种植园主无利可图的命题,揭示了由于内部的经济性矛盾,奴隶制即将消亡,或者说至少是衰退的。菲利普斯自己没有提出这个论点,但这个论点被一系列属于“菲利普斯学派”的历史学家提出并发展,此派学者致力于找出奴隶制自我消亡的经济因素。
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