Traders, Planters and Slaves. Market behaviour in early English America
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- Author(s) Galenson, David W
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1986
- Pages 230pp
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly work dealing with the period c1673-1725. Has sections: 'The Atlantic slave trade and the early development of the English West Indies'; 'Shipping and mortality'; 'Slave prices in the Barbados market, 1673-1723'; 'On the order of purchases by characteristics at slave sales'; 'The demographic composition of the slave trade - an economic investigation'; 'Estimating geographic persistence from market observations - population turnover among estate owners and managers in Barbados and Jamaica, 1673-1725'; 'The economic structure of the early Atlantic slave trade - the challenge of Adam Smith's analysis'. Draws on the experience of the Royal African Co