"This essay aims to provide a systematic analysis of Cuban slave prices in the vital period of plantation growth in the mid-nineteenth century. The analysis also measures price differentials between male and female slaves and between African-- and native-born (creole) slaves with different occupations." (authors)
Reviews books on Latin American slavery. Includes Slavery and Abolition in Early Republican Peru, by Peter Blanchard; Slave Women in Caribbean Society, ,1650-1838, by Barbara Bush; Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System, edited by Barbara L. Solow.;