Historia andina en Chile. Hidalgo, Jorge, Santiago, Editorial Universitaria, 2004: 705.

Cussen, Celia L.

doi:10.5354/0365-7779.2004.3327

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“…The gradual decline in the economic relevance of slavery and the peremptory interest in forging and maintaining a national identity from the mingling of indigenous and European stock threw a mantle of indifference over African contributions to local life. Despite the recent efforts of some historians to recapture some of the experiences, struggles and life strategies of enslaved Africans and their descendants in Chile, much remains to be understood about the true dimensions of black slavery, especially with regard to its economic and social aspects and its particular functions and meanings in a frontier region of the Spanish empire marked by constant tensions with an unsubmissive Indian population (Cussen 2009; González 2014) 3 . 2 Vinson (2008, p. 268) estimate it at 4,000, while Feliú (1942, pp.…”

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THE DYNAMICS AND DETERMINANTS OF SLAVE PRICES IN AN URBAN SETTING: SANTIAGO DE CHILE,c. 1773-1822

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This paper provides the first survey of slave prices for Santiago de Chile, c. 1773-1822. It also establishes the main determinants of slave prices during this period. We gathered and analysed over 3,800 sale operations. Our series confirm the usual inverted U-shape when prices are plotted against age, and that age was a very important determinant of slave prices. We also found that: female slaves were systematically priced over male slaves, quite contrary to what happened in most other markets; the prime age of Santiago slaves was 16-34, a younger range than for most other places; male slave prices moved in the same direction as real wages of unskilled workers; and the impact of the free womb law on market prices in 1811 was dramatic.

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