Reckoning with slavery: a critical study in the quantitative history of American Negro slavery

Introduction : A humanistic perspective / Kenneth M. Stampp

Part one : Masters and slaves

Capitalist masters, bourgeois slaves / Paul A. David and Peter Temin

Sambo makes good, or were slaves imbued with the Protestant work ethic? / Herbert Gutman and Richard Sutch

The slave family : protected agent of capitalist masters or victim of the slave trade? / Herbert Gutman and Richard Sutch

Victorians all? The sexual mores and conduct of slaves and their masters / Herbert Gutman and Richard Sutch

Part two : Institution and economy

Slavery : the progressive institution? / Paul A. David and Peter Temin

The care and feeding of slaves / Richard Sutch

Prosperity, progress, and American slavery / Gavin Wright

Part three : a judgment

Time on the cross and the burden of quantitative history.