Demographic performance of two slave populations of the Dutch speaking Caribbean.

Abstract

The American slave population grew much faster than the slave societies of the Caribbean and Latin America even after the closing of the slave trade. Brazil Cuba Guyana Jamaica as well as Martinique and Suriname showed a substantial natural decrease. One of the few exceptions to Caribbean pattern of declining slave population is the demographic performance of the slaves of the Dutch Antilles. A comparison between Curacao and Suriname suggests that the fertility rate of the former is twice as high as that of the latter. The author argues that this differential is caused by differences in the average birth interval between the two populations. This demographic variable in turn is probably related to differences in both the nature of slavery and the labour conditions on the plantations. Nutrition is another factor which may have contributed to the differences in fertility. No information is as yet available on the role that other variables may have played in causing the differential. (EXCERPT)

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