My first contact with Moreno came from reading The Sugarmill, the English-language translation of the first edition of El Ingenio. These works were the primary sources for understanding sugar and slavery in Cuba for many American scholars, and they have received many citations and much discussion, as they greatly deserved. Moreno's has been the most influential interpretation of slavery in Cuba, and his work has been important in all studies of comporative slavery in the Americas. Moreno visited with me twice in Rochester, and our discussions led to an article in the American Historical Review with Herbert Klein, examining the prices of slaves in a plantation document from his private collection. Memorable about his visits were not just the valued and pleasant discussions, but Moreno's demonstration of another skill in which I was lacking. On returning from the airport the tail pipe of my ancient car fell off, and while I was rather flustered Moreno hopped out, twisted a clothing hanger, crawled under the car, and re-attached everything such that it no longer was to be a problem. Thus, in addition to admiration of his knowledge, and his historical and economic skills, I learned that there was much more that he had succeeded at. I was also invited to an SSRC conference in Santo Domingo, which led to a book that he and I, with Frank Moya Pons, jointly edited. The essays were on slavery and its aftermath in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and this volume has been well-reviewed and frequently cited. Frank and I learned much from Moreno and benefited greatly from his knowledge in the editing. There were several subsequent meetings- one in Washington airport, another in Havana at the meeting of the Association of Caribbean Historians, at which he presented a paper on slave manumissions. My memories of Moreno are most fond and respectful, for his scholarship, his graciousness, and pleasantness in conversation (despite my difficulties with foreign languages), and, also, for his skills as an automobile mechanic.

Stanley Engerman
Professor
Department of History
University of Rochester, NY