Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834

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Press, University of the West Indies, 1995 - History - 781 pages
Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. Excellent tables and figures. Essential for serious scholars of the region.

-Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

 

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Contents

Physical and Economic Environments
40
Growth and Distribution of the Slave Populations
72
Structure of the Slave Populations
100
Urban Regimes
226
Health
260
Fertility Mortality and Natural Increase
303
Fertility
347
Conclusions
374
Ownership
431
Birthplace
442
Age
459
Color
526
Stature
532
Land Use and Labor Use
696
Notes
705
Bibliography 739
7

Slavery and Population History
395
Geographical Distribution
409
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Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
B. W. Higman
Snippet view - 1984
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
B. W. Higman
Snippet view - 1984

Common terms and phrases

African-born Africans Creoles Age Age group Total age structure Age-specific Anguilla Antigua Atlantic slave trade Bahamas Barbados Barbuda Berbice Birthplace Bridgetown British Caribbean British Guiana British Honduras Cayman Islands cocoa coffee colored slaves cotton Creoles Age group crop death rates Demerara Demerara-Essequibo diseases domestics Dominica driver employed Females Males Females Females Total Males fertility field laborers freedmen gang geophagy Grenada Higman Ibid Jamaica Kitts Leeward Islands Lucia Males Females Males Males Females Total manumission marginal colonies masters Mean S.D. Montserrat mortality natural increase Negro Nevis Number of Slaves Nurses Occupation old sugar colonies owners Parish pattern percent plantations planters Port of Spain provision grounds registration returns relatively rural slaves sex ratio Skilled tradespeople slave population slave registration slaveholding slaveowners Slavery Slaves by Sex slaves living Source Stockkeepers sugar estates Tobago Total Males Females towns Transport workers Trinidad Unknown urban slaves Vincent Virgin Islands Watchmen West Indies

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About the author (1995)

B.W. Higman is Emeritus Professor of History, University of the West Indies, and Emeritus Professor of History, Australian National University. He is the author of eleven books on Caribbean history, archaeology and geography, including the award-winning publications Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807?1834; Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807?1834; Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739?1912; Writing West Indian Histories; Plantation Jamaica, 1750?1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy; and Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture. His most recent books are A Concise History of the Caribbean and How Food Made History.

Bibliographic information

TitleSlave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
AuthorB. W. Higman
PublisherPress, University of the West Indies, 1995
ISBN9766400105, 9789766400101
Length781 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Caribbean & West Indies / General
History / Europe / General
History / General
Social Science / Slavery
  
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