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Stanley Engerman, revisionist scholar of slavery, dies at 87

Por: The Boston Globe Nation May 28, 2023

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Stanley Engerman, one of the authors of a deeply researched book that, wading into the fraught history of American slavery, argued that it was a rational, viable economic system and that enslaved Black people were more efficient workers than free white people in the North, died May 11 in Watertown. He was 87.His son David said the cause was myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare form of blood and bone marrow cancer.In their two-volume “Time on the... + full article



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