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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

PETER C. MANCALL
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of History, University of Southern California;
JOSHUA L. ROSENBLOOM
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Kansas and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research;
THOMAS WEISS
Affiliation:
Professor emeritus, University of Kansas and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.

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NOTES AND DISCUSSION
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© 2006 The Economic History Association

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