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Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reassessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

DAVID ELTIS ,
FRANK D. LEWIS  and
DAVID RICHARDSON
DAVID ELTIS
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. E-mail: deltis@emory.edu.
FRANK D. LEWIS
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3S6. E-mail: lewisf@qed.econ.queensu.ca.
DAVID RICHARDSON
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of History, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 TRX, U.K. E-mail: p.d.richardson@hull.ac.uk.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 1054 - 1065
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© 2006 The Economic History Association

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