David W. Cohen is Emeritus Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Jack P. Greene is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductions1. Colonial Spanish America2. Surinam and Curacao3. Colonial brazil4. The Frech Antilles5. Saint Domingue6. Jamaica7. Barbados8. The Slave States of North America9. Cuba10. Nineteenth0Century BrazilAppendix: Population TablesIndex

An important collection of 10 essays on the almost totally neglected subject of the freedman in North and South American slave societies that developed out of a symposium held at Johns Hopkins University in 1970... All of these essays furnish important insights into our understanding of racism and slave societies in the Americas. Much significance is attached to the ratios of freedmen to slaves; the statistical information alone is invaluable. All this and much more makes this book one that belongs in every college library. Choice