A life table for a West Indian slave population
- 1 March 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Population Studies
- Vol. 5 (3) , 238-243
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.1952.10416678
Abstract
This note comments briefly on the system of slave registration set up in the British colonies, and deals in particular with the data tabulated for the British Guiana slave population in the Parliamentary Papers, 1833. From the age distributions given there a life table has been constructed by a census differencing method. This life table shows the extremely high mortality then being experienced by slave populations in the West Indies.Keywords
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