Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery
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Doctors and slaves. A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies, 1680—1834
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عنوان ژورنال: Hispanic American Historical Review
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0018-2168,1527-1900
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-74.4.725