Slavery in the Development of the Americas

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Part I. Establishing the System:
1. White Atlantic? The choice for African slave labor in the plantation Americas Seymour Drescher
2. The Dutch and the slave Americas Pieter C. Emmer
Part II. Patterns of Slave Use:
3. Mercantile strategies, credit networks, and labor supply in the colonial Chesapeake in trans-Atlantic perspective Lorena S. Walsh
4. African slavery in the production of subsistence crops, the case of São Paulo in the nineteenth century Fransisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein
5. The transition from slavery to freedom through manumission: a life-cycle approach applied to the United States and Guadeloupe Frank D. Lewis
Part III. Productivity Change and Its Implications:
6. Prices of African slaves newly arrived in the Americas, 1673–1865: new evidence on long-run trends and regional differentials David Eltis and David Richardson
7. American slave markets during the 1850s: slave price rises in the US, Cuba, and Brazil in comparative perspective Laird W. Bergad
8. 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
Part IV. Implications for Distribution and Growth:
9. Slavery and economic growth in Virginia, 1760–1860: a view from probate records James R. Irwin
10. The poor: slaves in early America Philip D. Morgan
11. The North-South wage gap, before and after the Civil War Robert A. Margo
The writings of Stanley L. Engerman.

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