The South: Slavery

Terence J. Byres
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Terence J. Byres: University of London

Chapter 6 in Capitalism from Above and Capitalism from Below, 1996, pp 217-281 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The beginning of the import of African slaves into the ‘New World’ is usually put at 1502, ‘when the first references to blacks appear in the documents of Spanish colonial administrators’ [Fogel, 1989, 18; see also Fogel and Engerman, 1974: 15]. In North America, the first blacks arrived in Jamestown, Virginia (the earliest permanent English settlement in North America — it was settled in 1607) in 1619. In that year, the Virginia Company of London purchased, in Virginia, twenty black Africans from a Dutch captain.

Keywords: Home Market; Task System; Class Struggle; Planter Class; Slave Labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25117-9_6

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