| Description |
ix, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
White Atlantic? The choice for African slave labor in the plantation Americas / Seymour Drescher -- The 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 and Herbert S. Klein -- The 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 and David Richardson -- American slave markets during the 1850s: slave price rises in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil in comparative perspective / Laird W. Bergad -- The relative efficiency of free and slave agriculture in the antebellum United States: a stochastic production frontier approach / Elizabeth B. Field-Hendrey and Lee A. Craig -- Wealth accumulation in Virginia and in the century before the civil war / James R. Irwin -- The poor: slaves in early America / Philip D. Morgan -- The north-south wage gap before and after the civil war / Robert A. Margo. |
| 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. |
| Added Author |
Eltis, David, 1940-
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Lewis, Frank D.
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Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee.
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| ISBN |
0521832772 |
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