Slave purchasing strategies and shipboard mortality: Day-to-day evidence from the Dutch African Trade, 1751-1797

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 160-190

  Hogerzeil, Simon J ^a   Richardson, David ^b  

^a PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; MORTALITY; SLAVE; TRADE;

EID: 33947655368     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002205070700006X     Document Type: Article

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