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Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
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This paper gave excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation, drawing heavily on extensive date available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life.Abstract:
This book is a reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. It gives excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive date available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. It is essential for serious scholars of the region.read more
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Historicizing slavery in West Indian feminisms
TL;DR: The authors traces the evolution of a coherent feminist genre in written historical texts during and after slavery, and in relation to contemporary feminist writing in the West Indies, arguing that femininity was itself deeply differentiated by class and race, thus leading to historical disunity in the notion of feminine identity during slavery.
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The slave family in the transition to freedom: Barbados, 1834–1841
Laurence A. Brown,Tara Inniss +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new vision of the 1841 debates over child mortality in Barbados by examining the crisis as the result of the prolonged struggle for control over Afro-Barbadian families formed in slavery is provided.
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The ‘invisible child’ in British West Indian slavery
TL;DR: In this paper, the socialisation, value, treatment, mortality and responsibilities of slave children in the British West Indian colonies were discussed and an absence or incomplete statistics have contributed to difficulties in accurately assessing the presence and number of child slaves.
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Bahamian ship graffiti
TL;DR: In the Age of Sail the Bahamas was on major routes between the Americas and Europe and Bahamians developed a way of life using their location to advantage as discussed by the authors. But ship graffiti are unique in the region, being incised into a variety of stone surfaces, and probably other surfaces which have not survived.
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From the Old World to the New World: an ecologic study of population susceptibility to HIV infection.
TL;DR: A number of arguments suggest that confounders cannot explain all this association and that differential susceptibility might be an important determinant of steady‐state HIV prevalence.