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A Life Table for a West Indian Slave Population.

Authors :
Roberts, G. W.
Source :
Population Studies; Mar52, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p238-243, 6p
Publication Year :
1952

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00324728
Volume :
5
Issue :
3
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Population Studies
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
11660998
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.2307/2172428