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“[Fogel’s] exceedingly careful trying out of all imaginable sources and his pioneering methodological approach have allowed [him] both to extend our knowledge of an institutions operation and disintegration and to renew our methods of study.” ―from the citation to Robert William Fogel for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
During the last quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship at the lives of the slaves within the American South. Now he presents the dramatic upward thrust and fall of the “extraordinary institution,” because the abolitionist movement rose into a powerful political force that pulled down a seemingly impregnable system.