Slavery in the development of the Americas / edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eltis, David, 1940- editor.

Lewis, Frank D., editor.

Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--America--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Economic aspects--America--History.

Colonies--America--History.

Colonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others provide important insights about the operation of specific slave economics. There are reviews of slave markets and prices, and discussions of the efficiency and distributional aspects of slavery. Perspectives are brought on the transition from slavery and subsequent adjustments, and the volume contains the work of prominent scholars, many of whom have been pioneers in the study of slavery in the Americas.

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, 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, 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, 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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14891-X

1-280-45798-8

0-511-18605-3

0-511-18522-7

0-511-18791-2

0-511-31389-6

0-511-51212-0

0-511-18698-3

OCLC:

560116788