Slavery in the Development of the Americas

by Edited by David Eltis , Frank D. Lewis , Kenneth L. Sokoloff

• ISBN13: 9780521172677
• ISBN10: 0521172675
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Originally published in 2004, 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.

Table of Contents

Establishing the System

White Atlantic? The choice for African slave labor in the plantation Americas

The Dutch and the slave Americas

Patterns of Slave Use

Mercantile strategies, credit networks, and labor supply in the colonial Chesapeake in trans-Atlantic perspective

African slavery in the production of subsistence crops, the case of SÃúo Paulo in the nineteenth century Fransisco

The transition from slavery to freedom through manumission: a life-cycle approach applied to the United States and Guadeloupe

Productivity Change and Its Implications

Prices of African slaves newly arrived in the Americas, 1673-1865: new evidence on long-run trends and regional differentials

American slave markets during the 1850s: slave price rises in the US, Cuba, and Brazil in comparative perspective

The relative efficiency of free and slave agriculture in the antebellum United States: a stochastic production frontier approach

Implications for Distribution and Growth

Slavery and economic growth in Virginia, 1760-1860: a view from probate records

The poor: slaves in early America

The North-South wage gap, before and after the Civil War Robert A. Margo

The writings of Stanley

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