More on Jamaican Slavery, Re: Mortgage Deed

karl h schwerin (schwerin@UNM.EDU)
Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:22:02 -0700

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press

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slavery, but more particularly as it exists in the Island of Jamaica.
(don't know the original date, but it was reprinted 1970)

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Williams, Eric. 1944. "The Origin of Negro Slavery," pp. 7-29 in
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Press (argues that Negro slavery arose through economic necessity when
the costs of importing indentured *white* labor into the West Indies
became too high)



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