Discussion of Papers by Lang, DeCanio, Ellsworth, and Lindley

¹ Usher, Abbott Payson, “The Application of the Quantitative Method to Economic History,” Journal of Political Economy, XL (Apr., 1932), 209.

² Bridenbaugh, Carl, “The Great Mutation,” American Historical Review, LXVIII (Jan., 1963), 326.

³ Lauber, Almon Wheeler, Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States, Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 134 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1913), p. 291.

⁴ Curtin, Philip D., The Atlantic Slave Trade (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969), p. 268.

⁵ Ibid., p. 250.

⁶ Roger T. Anstey, “Capitalism and Slavery: A Critique,” Economic History Review, XXI (Aug., 1968), 307–20; Fage, J. D., “Introduction to the Second Edition”, in Sir Reginald Coupland's The British Anti-Slavery Movement (London: Frank Cass & Co., 1964), pp. xvii–xx; Porter, Dale H., The Abolition of the Slave Trade in England, 1784–1807 (Hampden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1970); Ward, W. E. F., The Royal Navy and the Slavers (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1969), pp. 16–20.

⁷ Williams, Eric, Capitalism and Slavery (New York: Capricorn Books, 1966), pp. 149–50.

⁸ Anstey, “Capitalism and Slavery …, ” 307–20; Porter, The Abolition of the Slave Trade …, passim.

⁹ Conrad, Alfred H. and Meyer, John R., “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South,” Journal of Political Economy, LXVI (Apr., 1958), 101.

¹⁰ Mercer, Lloyd J., “Rates of Return for Land-Grant Railroads: The Central Pacific System,” The Journal of Economic History, XXX (Sept., 1970), 615–16, 626.

¹¹ Solow, Robert M., Capital Theory and The Rate of Return (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1963), pp. 95–6.

¹² Kuznets, Simon, “Statistics and Economic History,” The Journal of Economic History, I (May, 1941), 38.

¹³ Bridenbaugh, “The Great Mutation,” 327.