Reviewed in The William and Mary Quarterly © 1968.
Cited in Free Blacks in a Slave Society: New Orleans, 1718-1812, by Thomas N. Ingersoll.
Cited in Slavery, by Orlando Patterson in Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 3. (1977), pp. 407-449.
From the author's Preface:
Recent studies on the Negro in contemporary Latin American society...clearly demonstrate the primacy of socioeconomic classifications in contemporary Latin American race relations, in contrast to the United States.3 But as yet sociologists and anthropologists have not synthesized their findings with the new comparative historical models in their rapid surveys of the slave heritage. As for the historians, neither the critics nor defenders of the new comparative historical school have attempted to go beyond the legal materials to the social and economic dynamics of the New World slave systems to test the assumptions and conclusions that have been proposed. This is the aim of my study...
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