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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... slave population between these two dates . The annual rate of net natural decrease implied by this estimate is , indeed , 3.0 per cent - high , but not beyond the experience of other Caribbean slave populations , and the 1850's was a ...
... slave population of the four neutral islands , for example , increased from about 20,000 in 1763 to about 42,000 in 1780. This repre- sents an annual increase at the rate of 4.4 per cent . A rate of net natural decrease at 2 per cent a ...
... slave population of Martinique grew much more slowly . Its growth rate of 0.8 per cent over the period 1736-87 was ... slave popula- tion — a situation that lasted until the virtual end of slave imports in the 1830's.31 Deaths among the ...
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A Review | 3 |
The Colonies of the North | 51 |
The Fifteenth Sixteenth | 95 |
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