Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Introduction Barbara L. Solow -- 1. Slacery and colonization Barbara L. Solow -- 2. The Old World background of slavery in the Americas William D. Phillips, Jr. -- 3. Slavery and lagging capitalism in the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, 1492-1713 Franklin W. Knight -- 4. The Cutch and the making of the second Atlantic system P. C. Emmer -- 5. Precolonial western Africa and the Atlantic economy David Eltis -- 6. A marginal institution on the margin of the Atlantic system: The Portufuese southern Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century Joseph C. Miller -- 7. The apprenticeship of colonization Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -- 8. Exports and the growth of the British economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens P. K. O'Brien and S. L. Engerman -- 9. The slave and colonial trade in France just before the Revolution Patrick Villiers -- 10. Slavery, trade, and economic growth in eighteenth-century New England David Richardson -- 11. Economic aaspects of the growth of slavery in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake David W. Galenson -- 12. Credit in the slave trade and plantation economies Jacob M. Price -- Index
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"Originally presented at a conference ... held at Harvard University Sept 4-5, 1988