Slavery in the Development of the Americas Book

	Appreciation: Stanley L. Engerman and slavery
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Establishing the system
1	White Atlantic? : the choice for African slave labor in the plantation Americas	31
2	The Dutch and the slave Americas	70
Pt. II	Patterns of slave use
3	Mercantile strategies, credit networks, and labor supply in the colonial Chesapeake in trans-Atlantic perspective	89
4	African slavery in the production of subsistence crops; the case of Sao Paulo in the nineteenth century	120
5	The transition from slavery to freedom through manumission : a life-cycle approach applied to the United States and Guadeloupe	150
Pt. 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	181
7	American slave markets during the 1850s : slave price rises in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil in comparative perspective	219
8	The relative efficiency of free and slave agriculture in the antebellum United States : a stochastic production frontier approach	236
Pt. IV	Implications for distribution and growth
9	Wealth accumulation in Virginia in the century before the Civil War	261
10	The poor : slaves in early America	288
11	The North-South wage gap before and after the Civil War	324
	Writings of Stanley L. Engerman	353
	Contributors	363
	Index	365