BROADLY SPEAKING, TWO CONTRASTING MODELS dominate interpretations of Atlantic
history. One draws on Old World inffuences to explain the nature of societies and cultures in …

We draw wide‐ranging implications about slave productivity change by making use of newly
collected data on the prices paid for nearly 230,000 slaves as they arrived in the Americas …

Building social tables in the tradition of Gregory King, we develop new estimates suggesting
that between 1774 and 1800 American incomes fell in real per capita terms. The colonial …

A recent endogenous growth literature has focused on the transition from a Malthusian world
where real wages were linked to factor endowments, to one where modern growth has …

Market transaction data are used to estimate the quantity of specie in circulation. This
estimate is used to provide the first comprehensive measure of a colony's money supply …

Customarily, studies of urbanization in early British America have concentrated on its
northern mainland seaports. This article moves beyond a thirteen colonies perspective to …

Wederstrandt, Henry Didier Jr.(in trust for Rebecca Smith), and Henry Thompson entered
into a seven-year partnership to purchase the Magnolia Grove plantation from Samuel B …

Charlotte grew up on a Rockingham County, Virginia, plantation with her parents and
sixteen brothers and sisters. Her family was somewhat favored by their slaveholder Charles …

In 2002 A BEAUTIFUL SOUTH CAROLINA PROPERTY SET AMID THE" pine woods, open
pastures and old rice fields" along the eastern branch of the Cooper River was offered for …

This dissertation provides a new interpretation for the rise and subsequent decline of Brazil
as a cotton supplier to the British textile sector during the Industrial Revolution. Between …