Slavery in the Development of the Americas.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Slavery in the Development of the Americas. Edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 372. $75.00.)

This Festschrift to Stanley L. Engerman is composed of an extensive introduction and eleven articles by fifteen economists and historians from five countries. Engerman has been a leading figure in the historiography of the economics of slavery in the Americas. In 1974, Engerman, with Robert W. Fogel, published the controversial Time on the Cross, a model of quantitative analysis applied to slavery in the ...

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