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Studies of the economics of slave use on America's plantations have proliferated in recent years. In great detail writers such as Michael Craton and James Walvin have examined the microeconomic aspects of individual plantation operation, setting the standard by which such information is obtained and processed,2 while the wealth of available materials has led to a rapid growth in quantitative studies of plantation management such as R.W. Fogel's and Stanley L. Engerman's celebrated Time on the Cross.3 The student of plantation4 operation in
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