1992
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François Nault et al., « L'abolition de l'esclavage à Saint-Barthélémy vue à travers l'étude de quatre listes nominatives de sa population rurale de 1840 à 1854 », Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire (documents), ID : 10.3406/outre.1992.3017
A slave population existed on the island of Saint-Barthélémy in the French West Indies consequent to its colonization by the French in the mid-seventeenth century. Until recently, this slave population has been little known or studied. This present paper is a demographic study of the island's pre-abolition slave population and post-abolition colored population based on the analysis of four nominative censuses : 1840, 1846, 1853 and 1854. It concerns the age, sex and geographic distributions as well as the numerical contribution of these populations to the island's total population. It compares those households with slaves to those without slaves and, after General Emancipation, compares the colored household to those of the whites according to precise characteristics : structure, using Laslett's typology, age and sex of the head of household, family size...