working conditions made them more susceptible to many infectious and parasitic diseases). He describes the types of home and professional care provided to sick slaves by their masters and other slaves. This book contains several outstanding and many valuable essays. It does not alter the support of this reviewer for Cassedy's explanation of the assertions of the distinctiveness of southern scie...

Adam Smith made two positive claims about slavery in the context of developing economies. First, Smith explains that slavery is in general highly inefficient. By his account, the net product under freedom is 12 times larger than under slavery. Second, he observes that, despite its inefficiencies, slavery persists in most of the world. Taken together, these claims create a fundamental puzzle: Wh...

January 2, 2006 Abstract The profitability of owning slaves has been a popular area of research in economic history. Existing analyses have focused on estimating the rate of return on slaves and presenting rates of return on other available antebellum investments. Modern stockportfolio performance measures allow us to rank the owning on slaves with other investments of the period over an extend...

Bluetooth is a personal wireless communication technology [2] and is being applied in many scenarios. Current existing scheduling scheme only provide best-effort service for all master-slave connection. It is very challenging to provide Efficiency parameter (Latency) support for different connection due to the feature of Master Driven TDD (Time Division Duplex). This paper addresses the issue t...

The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860 Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less likely to die in the hospital than the ...

Bluetooth is a personal wireless communication technology and is being applied in many scenarios. Current existing MAC (Medium Access Control) scheduling scheme only provides best-effort service for all master-slave connections. It is very challenging to provide QoS (Quality of Service) support for different connections due to the feature of Master Driven TDD (Time Division Duplex). This paper ...