Francisco Vidal Luna is Professor of Economics at the Universidade de São Paulo. He is the author of several books on the Brazilian economy and economic history. Herbert S. Klein is Professor of Latin American History at Columbia University. Among his many books are Haciendas and Ayllus: Rural Society in the Bolivian Andes in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Stanford, 1993) and, most recently, The Atlantic Slave Trade.

"[T]his excellent book deserves the careful consideration not only of scholars of slavery and Brazilian economic history, but students of the wider Atlantic World as well."—Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "There is not one thing wrong with this book. Luna and Klein have done impressive research in previously unused sources. They present their findings in clear, unpretentious prose....All in all, Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo is a model monograph, nothing less than we have come to expect from its distinguished authors."EH.Net

Francisco Vidal Luna is Professor of Economics at the Universidade de São Paulo. He is the author of several books on the Brazilian economy and economic history. Herbert S. Klein is Professor of Latin American History at Columbia University. Among his many books are Haciendas and Ayllus: Rural Society in the Bolivian Andes in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Stanford, 1993) and, most recently, The Atlantic Slave Trade.

"[T]his excellent book deserves the careful consideration not only of scholars of slavery and Brazilian economic history, but students of the wider Atlantic World as well."—Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "There is not one thing wrong with this book. Luna and Klein have done impressive research in previously unused sources. They present their findings in clear, unpretentious prose....All in all, Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo is a model monograph, nothing less than we have come to expect from its distinguished authors."EH.Net

Francisco Vidal Luna is Professor of Economics at the Universidade de São Paulo. He is the author of several books on the Brazilian economy and economic history. Herbert S. Klein is Professor of Latin American History at Columbia University. Among his many books are Haciendas and Ayllus: Rural Society in the Bolivian Andes in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Stanford, 1993) and, most recently, The Atlantic Slave Trade.

"[T]his excellent book deserves the careful consideration not only of scholars of slavery and Brazilian economic history, but students of the wider Atlantic World as well."—Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History "There is not one thing wrong with this book. Luna and Klein have done impressive research in previously unused sources. They present their findings in clear, unpretentious prose....All in all, Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo is a model monograph, nothing less than we have come to expect from its distinguished authors."EH.Net