Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery is a controversial 1974 economic history study by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman that uses quantitative methods to analyze the profitability and efficiency of slavery in the American South.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18044214 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Context triple: [Time on the Cross, hasPart, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery]
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The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South
The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South is a landmark economic history study that applied quantitative methods to analyze the profitability and economic role of slavery in the pre–Civil War American South.
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B.
Capitalism and Slavery
Capitalism and Slavery is a seminal historical study by Eric Williams that argues the rise and decline of slavery in the British Empire were fundamentally driven by economic forces tied to the development of capitalism.
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C.
Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
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D.
Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States
Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States is an influential 19th-century abolitionist work by Theodore Dwight Weld that exposes the brutality and moral corruption of American slavery and the domestic slave trade.
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E.
The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy is an 1839 abolitionist treatise by Thomas Fowell Buxton that analyzes the transatlantic slave trade and advocates practical measures, including legitimate commerce and political action, to end it.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery Target entity description: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery is a controversial 1974 economic history study by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman that uses quantitative methods to analyze the profitability and efficiency of slavery in the American South.
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A.
The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South
The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South is a landmark economic history study that applied quantitative methods to analyze the profitability and economic role of slavery in the pre–Civil War American South.
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B.
Capitalism and Slavery
Capitalism and Slavery is a seminal historical study by Eric Williams that argues the rise and decline of slavery in the British Empire were fundamentally driven by economic forces tied to the development of capitalism.
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C.
Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade
Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade is an influential 1788 pamphlet by former slave ship captain turned Anglican clergyman John Newton, in which he condemns and details the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.
-
D.
Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States
Slavery and the Internal Slave Trade in the United States is an influential 19th-century abolitionist work by Theodore Dwight Weld that exposes the brutality and moral corruption of American slavery and the domestic slave trade.
-
E.
The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy
The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy is an 1839 abolitionist treatise by Thomas Fowell Buxton that analyzes the transatlantic slave trade and advocates practical measures, including legitimate commerce and political action, to end it.
- F. None of above. chosen
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