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Contents: Introduction; European antecedents to plantation economies in the Americas: sugar and slaves: Plantations, sugar cane and slavery, Sidney M. Greenfield; Brazil: Indian labour and New World plantations: European demands and Indian responses in northeastern Brazil, Stuart B. Schwartz; Slave families on a rural estate in Colonial Brazil, Richard Graham; African slave trade and economic development in Amazonia, 1700-1800, Colin M. MacLachlan; Spanish America: Encomienda, African slavery, and agriculture in 17th-century Caracas, Robert J. Ferry; British America: Slaves in Piedmont Virginia, 1720-1790, Philip D. Morgan and Michael L. Nicholls; Plantations, paternalism and profitability: factors affecting African demography in the Old British Empire, Daniel C. Littlefield; A tale of two plantations: slave life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia, 1799-1828, Richard S. Dunn; Danish Caribbean: Slaves and slave masters on 18th-century St. John, Karen Fog Olwig; French Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture and the slaves of the Bréda plantations, David Geggus; Comparative Theory: Caribbean: Freedom and oppression of slaves in the 18th-century Caribbean, Arthur L. Stinchcombe; Was the plantation slave a proletarian?, Sidney W. Mintz; Index.