Journal article
‘Not that of mere accident, but of humane treatment’: natural increase and ‘amelioration’ on Grand Sable Estate, St Vincent
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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 to support the cause of gradualist amelioration and to oppose metropolitan regulation of slavery, especially emancipation. Explanations of demographic success advanced by opponents of abolition are ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Continuity and Change Journal website
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 117-144
- Publication date:
- 2018-05-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-04
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- EISSN:
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1469-218X
- ISSN:
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0268-4160
- Source identifiers:
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738975
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- pubs:738975
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-27
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- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2018 Cambridge University Press. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416018000073
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