ISBN10: 0195189426, ISBN13: 9780195189421, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and Afro-American experience under these regimes. It approaches these themes both historically and structurally. The historicalsection provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of slavery and forced labor systems in Europe, Africa, and America. The second half of the book looks at the type of life and culture which thesalves experienced in these American regimes.The first part of the book describes the growth of the plantation and mining economies that absorbed African slave labor, how that labor was used, and how the changing international economic conditions affected the local use and distribution of the slave labor force. Particular emphasis is given to the evolution of the sugar plantation economy, which was the single largest user of African slave labor and which was established inalmost all of the Latin American colonies.Once establishing the economic context in which slave labor was applied, the book shifts focus to the Africans and Afro-Americansthemselves as they passed through this slave regime. The ...