New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade
利用1790年代奴隶船外科医生的日志，研究非洲条件与船上条件、拥挤程度、多尔本法案效果以及奴隶与船员健康互动对死亡率的影响，发现多数奴隶死亡发生在航程中期，拥挤影响健康但法案效果有限，船员疾病模式与奴隶相对隔离。
The journals of slave ship surgeons of the 1790s are used to address questions on the relative importance of African conditions versus those on ships, crowding, the effectiveness of Dolben's Act, and the interaction between slave and crew health. In contrast with previous work we find that most slaves who died did so near the middle of the voyage. Crowding was important to health and mortality, but the restrictions of Dolben's Act did little to reduce losses. The crew was largely isolated from patterns of disease among slaves.