‘Not that of mere accident, but of humane treatment’: natural increase and ‘amelioration’ on Grand Sable Estate, St Vincent
This article investigates the demographic history of Grand Sable sugar estate in nineteenthcentury St Vincent. Exceptionally for a Caribbean plantation, Grand Sable’s enslaved population achieved natural increase (a surplus of births over deaths). Pro-slavery campaigners seized on this achievement t...
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Cambridge University Press
2018
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