The Demographic Decline of Caribbean Slave Populations: New Evidence from the Transatlantic and Intra-American Slave Trades
The Demographic Decline of Caribbean Slave Populations: New Evidence from the Transatlantic and Intra-American Slave Trades
This chapter focuses on the decline rate of the Caribbean slaves' population growth. New data on the arrival of slaves in the Americas together with new information on what has come to be called the intra-American slave trade provide an opportunity to reassess this critical issue. In Caribbean slave societies, the emergence of steady-state or growth conditions was severely delayed by a combination of the rigors of sugar production to which the slave labor force was subjected; the unhealthy, disease-ridden environments of many sugar plantations; and the massive, three-century-long expansion of the sugar sector. Linkage of rates in the Caribbean from 1715 to 1790 with periods before and after this time span is the next step in analyzing the demography of New World populations of African descent.
Keywords: decline rate, Caribbean, slaves, slave trade, slave labor force
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