Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he presents the dramatic rise and fall of the "peculiar institution," as the abolitionist movement rose into a powerful political force that pulled down a seemingly impregnable system.
- ISBN10 0393307530
- ISBN13 9780393307535
- Publish Date 17 April 1991 (first published 17 September 1989)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 28 February 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 544
- Language English