A PECULIAR SAMPLE - THE SELECTION OF SLAVES FOR THE NEW-ORLEANS MARKET

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: PRITCHETT, JB; FREUDENBERGER, H
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700010287
• 发表日期: 1992
• 页码: 109-127
• 关键词: american slaves; mortality

摘要

Domestic slave traders selected taller slaves for shipment to the New Orleans market in order to increase their profits. Because traded slaves made up a large share of the slaves shipped coastwise, age/height profiles constructed from the shipping manifests are biased upwards. The extent of the bias appears to be small for adult slaves but not for children; those listed on the manifests were taller than the general population of a comparable age.