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Human Capital and Other Determinants of the Price Life Cycle of a Slave: Peru and La Plata in the Eighteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Carlos Newland  and
María Jesús San segundo
Carlos Newland
Affiliation:
Professor of Economics at the Universidad Torcuato Di Telia, and Administrator, Fundación José Ortega y Gasset Argentina, Centra Cultural Borges, San Martín esq. Viamonte, (1053) Buenos Aires.
María Jesús San segundo
Affiliation:
Professor of Economics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Calle Madrid 126 (28903), Getafe, Spain.
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Abstract

Toward the end of the eighteenth century Spanish America had about 400,000 slaves, which made 3 percent of the population. Before this time the importance of slavery had been greater, having received a large stimulus because of the sharp demographic decline of the natives following the Conquest. The arrival of Africans meant that in 1650 the proportion of slaves to total population was from 5 to 10 percent.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , September 1996 , pp. 694 - 701
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1996

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