When imported slaves were first sold in New Orleans, buyers were unaware of the slaves’ unobservable characteristics. In time, the new owners learned more about their slaves and may have resold the “lemons.” Previous research suggests that buyers anticipated such adverse selection and reduced their bids for these slaves. Consequently, we should observe lower prices for resold slaves. We test th...

Most of the earliest studies done on Southern plantation life portrayed slaves as people without a culture, without philosophical beliefs, and without educational instruments of their own. Historians often viewed slaves as barbarians to be civilized; as perpetual children at best, and animals at worst. As such, it was assumed that slaves held no strong values or convictions and that they were w...

> We need a fast and efficient data transport between the processor nodes! ! A bus-like communication structure with one master and four slaves ! Master: ! communicates with the sensors and actors ! distributes data to the slaves ! Collects data from the slaves ! Slaves: ! Runs control algorithms at full speed ! Accessed via they host port interface(HPI) Øzero communication overhead ! ’Comm’-pr...

The article introduces Ilha Grande, a district in the municipality of Angra dos Reis, and describes its role within the subsistence market economy and the memory of slavery as found in the Angra dos Reis Civil Records. According to the Almanaque Laemmert, this district had the largest number of slaves in the municipality as of the 1870s. Most owners had few slaves, and the majority of landholdi...

Previous work on Georgia plantations has provided useful data about life on the large plantations on barrier islands. More recent work on small to mid-sized plantations reveals that slaves’ acquisition of ceramics may reflect more of their own decisions on what was purchased and what was used. Coarser ware frequencies indicate food preparation and storage in the slave quarters. Porcelain was of...

This chapter uses statistical techniques to assess whether there is evidence that Africa’s slave trades had a detrimental impact on long-term economic development. This is done by first constructing estimates of the number of slaves taken from each region of Africa between 1400 and 1900. The estimates are constructed by combining data on the number of slaves shipped from African ports with data...

Manish Kalia, Sumit Garg, Rajeev Shorey IBM India Research Laboratory, Block 1, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India. Email: [email protected], Phone: 91-11-6861100, Fax: 91-11-6861555 Abstract—In indoor pico-cellular wireless systems, such as Bluetooth1 , a pico-cell has a Master-Slave configuration. Bluetooth is a Centralized Master driven system that supports T...

Monte-Carlo tree search is a powerful paradigm for the game of Go. We present a parallel Master-Slave algorithm for Monte-Carlo tree search. We experimented the algorithm on a network of computers using various configurations: from 12,500 to 100,000 playouts, from 1 to 64 slaves, and from 1 to 16 computers. On our architecture we obtain a speedup of 14 for 16 slaves. With a single slave and fiv...