Thanks for the wonderful bibliography on the slave trade, Jose.  One
footnote thereto is that John McCuster's monumental dissertation was
indeed published and is available in a two volume set.  The citation
is:
 
McCusker, John J., _Rum and the American Revolution: The Rum Trade and
the Balance of Payments of the Thirteen Colntinental Colonies_, vols. 1
& 2, New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989.
 
The pair set me back about $80 as I recall.
 
It was published in the "Outstanding Studies in Early American History"
series, edited by John Murrin.
 
(Mellssa:  McCusker is a must, and an astonishing piece of scholarly
thoroughness!)
 
Ron
 
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