Slavery in the Development of the Americas

Klappentext This book contains perspectives from prominent historians of slavery in the Americas. Zusammenfassung This book brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States! Brazil! Cuba! the French and Dutch Caribbean! and elsewhere in the Americas. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: David Eltis, David (Emory University Eltis, David Lewis Eltis
• Assisted by: Eltis David (Editor), David Eltis (Editor), Eltis David (Editor), Lewis Frank D. (Editor), Sokoloff Kenneth L. (Editor), Frank D. Lewis (Editor), Lewis Frank D. (Editor), Kenneth L. Sokoloff (Editor), Sokoloff Kenneth L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521172677
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17267-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / World, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, General and world history, History of the Americas, The Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery