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1 online resource (ix, 372 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
White Atlantic? The choice for African slave labor in the plantation Americas / Seymour Drescher -- Dutch and the slave Americas / Pieter C. Emmer -- Mercantile strategies, credit networks, and labor supply in the colonial Chesapeake in trans-Atlantic perspective / Lorena S. Walsh -- African slavery in the production of subsistence crops: the case of São Paulo in the nineteenth century / Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein -- Transition from slavery to freedom through manumission: a life-cycle approach applied to the United States and Guadeloupe / Frank D. Lewis -- Prices of African slaves newly arrived in the Americas, 1673-1865: new evidence on long-run trends and regional differentials / Davis Eltis, David Richardson -- American slave markets during the 1850s: slave price rises in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil in comparative perspective / Laird W. Bergad -- Relative efficiency of free and slave agriculture in the antebellum United States: a stochastic production frontier approach / Elizabeth B. Field-Hendrey, Lee A. Craig -- Wealth accumulation in Virginia and in the century before the Civil War / James R. Irwin -- Poor: slaves in early America / Philip D. Morgan -- North-south wage gap before and after the civil war / Robert A. Margo. |
| Summary |
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together new work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- America -- History.
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Slavery. |
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America. |
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History. |
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Slavery -- Economic aspects -- America -- History.
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Slavery -- Economic aspects. |
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Colonies -- America -- History.
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Colonies. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Eltis, David, 1940-
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Lewis, Frank D.
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Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Slavery in the development of the Americas. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003069729 |
| ISBN |
9780511187919 |
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0511187912 |
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9780521832779 |
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0521832772 |
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0511186983 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511186981 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511186053 (electronic book) |
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9780511186059 (electronic book) |
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0511185227 (electronic book) |
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9780511185229 (electronic book) |
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9780511512124 (ebook) |
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0511512120 (ebook) |
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9786610457984 |
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6610457980 |
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0511187912 |
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0521832772 |
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