The Demographic decline of caribbean slave populations: New evidence from the transatlantic and intra-American slave trades

Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 355-363

  Eltis, David ^a   Lachance, Paul ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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