Traders, Planters and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English AmericaCambridge University Press, 2002 M07 18 - 230 páginas The explosive growth of the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the seventeenth century made the international trade in Africans one of the world's largest industries. This book explores the operation of that industry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, focusing on the market behaviour of the Royal African Company - the largest English company engaged in the slave trade - and the sugar planters of the Caribbean, who were the trade's principal customers in English America. A richly detailed portrayal of the slave trade to English America emerges, one that shows it to have been a highly competitive and efficient transatlantic market. In revealing the existence of sophisticated and complex market behaviour in this early period of black slavery in the New World, the book adds to our understanding of the development of large-scale competitive markets, as well as to our knowledge of the efficiency of resource allocation in early English America. |
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The Atlantic slave trade and the early development of the English West Indies | 1 |
The growth of the early English West Indies | 2 |
Consequences of the sugar revolution | 7 |
The slave trade and the role of the Royal African Company | 13 |
The Royal African Company and the organization of the slave trade | 21 |
Shipping and mortality | 29 |
The seasonality of the slave trade | 33 |
Mortality in the Middle Passage | 37 |
Estimating geographic persistence from market observations population turnover among estate owners and managers in Barbados and Jamaica 16731... | 115 |
Market observations and the measurement of persistence | 116 |
The Royal African Company invoice accounts and the market for slaves in Barbados and Jamaica | 118 |
Persistence in Barbados and Jamaica | 121 |
Trends in persistence over time | 125 |
Persistence and wealth | 132 |
comparative perspective and interpretation | 135 |
Population turnover and the development of a plantation economy in the English West Indies | 137 |
Slave prices in the Barbados market 16731723 | 53 |
The structure of slave prices by age and sex | 61 |
Trends in Barbados slave prices 16731723 | 64 |
On the order of purchases by characteristics at slave sales | 71 |
Characteristics of slave sales in Barbados | 72 |
The behavior of prices over the course of slave sales | 73 |
The format of Royal African Company slave sales | 81 |
Explaining the order of purchases in the slave sales | 85 |
The demographic composition of the slave trade an economic investigation | 93 |
an economic analysis | 97 |
a hypothesis | 105 |
The selection of cargoes and the demographic composition of the slave trade | 110 |
The economic structure of the early Atlantic slave trade the challenge of Adam Smiths analysis | 143 |
Adam Smiths analysis and the causes of the failure of the Royal African Company | 145 |
The applicability of economic theory to history | 150 |
The Atlantic slave trade and early English America | 153 |
The Royal African Companys homeward bound invoice account books | 157 |
Data used in the analysis of passage mortality 17205 | 163 |
Measuring persistence rates and the problem of common names | 167 |
Notes | 173 |
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Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America David W. Galenson Sin vista previa disponible - 1986 |
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analysis annual appear Atlantic slave trade auctions average daily mortality Barbados and Jamaica buyers Cape Coast Castle captains census chapter colonies common names company's agents competitive costs daily mortality rate decades decline demographic categories early Economic History effect eighteenth century England English West Indies equation evidence factors freight Gambia hired indentured servants invoice accounts islands Jamaica K. G. Davies labor Leeward Islands Leewards London males mean Middle Passage monopoly Negroes number of slaves outmigration owners passage mortality percent period plantation planters population price series prices of slaves profits records relative result Royal African Company sample seventeenth century share of children ship's ships significant slave cargoes slave prices slave sales Slavery slaves delivered slaves sold slaving voyages South Carolina Stephen Gascoigne Sugar and Slaves Table tion tonnage transactions transatlantic slave trade trend University Press variable voyage duration wealth West Africa West Indian