Easawa, Joshy; Ghoshray, Atanu - 2023
The purpose of this shorter paper is to estimate the trend of 18 th century British slave prices. We apply robust … econometric procedures on slave price data constructed by Whatley (2018) over the period 1699 to 1807 and find evidence of a … break, concluding there is no significant trend in the first regime prior to 1740. However, in the second regime, slave …