Traders, Planters and Slaves : Market Behavior in Early English America (Paperback)

List of tables; Preface; 1. The Atlantic slave trade and the early development of the English West Indies; 2. Shipping and mortality; 3. Slave prices in the Barbados market, 1673?1723; 4. On the order of purchases by characteristics at slave sales; 5. The demographic composition of the slave trade: an economic investigation; 6. Establishing geographic persistence from market observations: population turnover among estate owners and managers in Barbados and Jamaica, 1673?1725; 7. The economic structure of the early Atlantic slave trade: the challenge of Adam Smith's analysis; Appendices; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.