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Publication date: 9 September 2020

Robyn S. Lacy

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Burial and Death in Colonial North America
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ISBN: 978-1-78973-043-2

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Burial and Death in Colonial North America
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ISBN: 978-1-78973-043-2

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Burial and Death in Colonial North America
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ISBN: 978-1-78973-043-2

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Publication date: 18 December 2007

Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss

Scholars have long emphasized that the Lower South was one of the most economically successful regions of British North America. The region had the highest levels of private…

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Scholars have long emphasized that the Lower South was one of the most economically successful regions of British North America. The region had the highest levels of private wealth per capita in the colonies by 1774, and it has been argued that income per capita rose rapidly due to the rapid growth of rice exports. Here we present new and more comprehensive estimates of the region's exports, which reveal a different result. While exports grew rapidly, they grew slower than rice and indigo alone, and slower than population. Here we explain why the extensive growth of exports and population did not lead to rapid growth of income per capita.

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Research in Economic History
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-459-1

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Burial and Death in Colonial North America
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ISBN: 978-1-78973-043-2

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Publication date: 18 January 2013

Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss

Exports are both an important component of overall economic performance and an indicator of broader trends in economic growth for the early American economy. In this article we…

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Exports are both an important component of overall economic performance and an indicator of broader trends in economic growth for the early American economy. In this article we describe a new set of estimates of the volume of overseas exports originating in the colonies and states of the Middle Atlantic region from 1720 to 1800. Measured in constant prices, export volumes grew rapidly in this period, but were unable to outpace the rapid growth of population and the labor force. Despite significant short-run fluctuations, per capita export values displayed no trend. At the same time, regional terms of trade improved considerably, increasing the foreign exchange earnings produced for any real export quantity.

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Research in Economic History
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ISBN: 978-1-78190-557-9

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Publication date: 30 September 2020

Lawrence H. Officer and Samuel H. Williamson

We develop the concept of the slave-trade balance of payments and generate its table for the United States for 1790–1860. In the process, we construct new data for the slave…

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We develop the concept of the slave-trade balance of payments and generate its table for the United States for 1790–1860. In the process, we construct new data for the slave trade, including both the physical movement and revenue figures, and we analyze these numbers. The balance of payments includes slave imports, carrying trade in slaves, purchases of slaves that fail to be imported, outfitting and provisioning slave ships, and slave-ship sales. The slave-trade balance is integrated into the standard balance of payments. Among the findings are the following: slave imports were dominated by natural growth except for one decade; US ships had the greater role than foreign ships in the import trade, but were of small—and eventually nil—consequence in the carrying trade; federal and state laws to prohibit the slave trade in all its aspects were generally effective; and the slave-trade balance of payments was a small component of the overall balance.

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Publication date: 9 September 2020

Robyn S. Lacy

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Burial and Death in Colonial North America
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ISBN: 978-1-78973-043-2

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Publication date: 12 December 2006

Jerome Teelucksingh

The racial diversity of the Caribbean stemmed directly from the historical processes of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and indentureship. Since the early 17th century, slaves…

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The racial diversity of the Caribbean stemmed directly from the historical processes of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and indentureship. Since the early 17th century, slaves have been imported from Africa to work in the Caribbean. In the British West Indies, slavery was abolished in 1834 but these African slaves worked on the sugar estates until the apprenticeship was abolished on August 1, 1838. Even before 1838, planters frequently complained of labor shortages and appealed to Britain for the approval of imported labor. Thus, there were attempts by the planters in colonies, such as Trinidad, to introduce Chinese labor to the plantations. As early as 1806, there was the importation of 192 Chinese from Macao and Penang into Trinidad. However, this experiment soon failed. In 1834 and 1839, laborers from Portugal were imported into Trinidad. This soon ended as Portuguese workers could not withstand the rigorous conditions of the contract labor system.

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Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World
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ISBN: 978-0-7623-1321-1

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