Abstract
An economic model of the middle passage of the African-American slave trade is presented. The model is used to explain why previous researchers have obtained unsatisfactory results when analyzing the factors that contributed to slave mortality rates which were higher than those observed on other ocean voyages at the time. The effects of sailing time and crowding on mortality rates are examined and some conclusions are drawn based on the results of the model. Data are primarily for the nineteenth century. (ANNOTATION)
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