Race and slavery in the Western Hemisphere; quantitative studies. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Eugene D. Genovese. Contributors: Alan H. Adamson [and others].

Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Rochester, Mar. 9-11, 1972, sponsored by the History Advisory Committee of the Mathematical Social Science Board.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1: The slave trade -- I. The volume and profitability of the British slave trade, 1761-1807, Roger Anstey -- II. The origin of African slaves: The Dutch activities on the Guinea Coast, 1675-1795, Johannes Postma -- III. A quantitative analysis of the impact of British suppression policies on the on the volume of the nineteenth century Atlantic slave trade, E. Phillip LeVeen -- IV. The living and the dead: White mortality in West Africa, 1684-1732, K.G. Davies -- V. Comment, George Shepperson -- VI. Measuring the Atlantic slave trade, Philip D. Curtin -- Part 2: Social and demographic aspects of slave populations -- VII. "More like a negro country": Demographic patterns in colonial South Carolina, 1700-1740, Peter H. Wood -- VIII. The breeding of slaves for sale and the Westward expansion of slavery, 1850-1860, Richard Sutch -- IX. On the natural increase of slave populations: The example of the Cuban black population, 1775-1900, Jack Ericson Eblen -- X. Jamaican slavery, Michael Craton -- XI. Mortality and the medical treatment of slaves in the British West Indies, Richard B. Sheridan -- XII. Religion and magic in Mexican slave society, 1570-1650, Colin A. Palmer -- Part 3. The slave and free person of color in an urban environment -- XIII. The free person of color in Mexico City and Lima: Manumission and opportunity, 1580-1650, Frederick P. Bowser -- XIV. From porterage to proprietorship: African occupations in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850, Mary Karasch -- XV. Free-born and slave-born blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia, Theodore Hershberg -- XVI. A model to explain the relative decline of urban slavery: Empirical results, Claudia Dale Goldin -- XVII. Comment, Harold D. Woodman -- Part 4. The post-emancipation response -- XVIII. The reconstruction of plantation labor after emancipation: The case of British Guiana, Alan H. Adamson -- Part 5. Summery remarks -- XIX. History and anthropology: A brief reprise, Sidney W. Mintz -- XX. Comments on the study of race and slavery, Stanley L. Engerman -- XXI. Concluding remarks, Eugene D. Genovese.

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