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Eighteen months after the publication of his book on slavery, "Time on the Cross," the controversy surrounding Robert W. Fogel, Burbank Professor of Political Economy and professor of History, has not died down. Recent weeks have even seen a distinct heating up of the scholarly polemic...
...article, which appeared in the New York Review of Books, went on to attack Fogel's book, which Stanley Engerman coauthored, for "carelessness" in the interpretation and collection of statistical evidence and "extreme overindulgence in the heady art of pyramiding assumptions...
...Time on the Cross," Fogel said that the Southern slave plantation was economically more efficient than Northern agriculture, and that efficiency came from the slaves' ability to rise in the plantation system of incentives...
...Fogel--whose method is based on quantitative materials, mainly census tracts and plantation records--also argued that the slave system was less brutal than past historians have said...
Critics of Fogel, including Haskell, have said that Fogel's data is misleading and fragmentary, and that his basic mathematical comparison between Southern and Northern agriculture are inaccurate and possibly make the book's conclusions worthless...