The Atlantic Slave Trade: A CensusUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1969 - 338 pages Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade. Its basic evidence suggests revision of currently held opinions concerning the place of the slave trade in the economies of the Old World nations and their American colonies. |
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... demographic pattern of the islands . For this sector at least , a naturally declining slave population appeared , and the demographic pattern , like the economic pat- tern , came to resemble that of Jamaica or Saint Domingue a century ...
... demographic pattern is clear enough , no continu- ous record of slave imports has been published for the period after 1766 - neither for Barbados nor for an equivalent phase in the demographic life of any other sugar colony . A number ...
... demographic consequences of moving any number of people from any society can have meaning only in relation to the size of the society , the time - period concerned , the age and sex composition of the emi- grants and of the society from ...
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A Review | 3 |
The Colonies of the North | 51 |
The Fifteenth Sixteenth | 95 |
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