Slavery and the slave trade -- Merchants and planters -- The triangular trade -- Slave demography and family life -- Work, law, and culture -- Slave resistance and rebellion -- The abolition of the British slave trade -- Slave emancipation

"This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin American and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada. It demonstrates how...