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Title: Demographic Consequences of the Interregional Slave Trade

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: This paper examines the demographic effects of the interregional U. S. slave trade using household data. Aggregate census data indicate a higher child-woman ratio in the exporting areas of the South, a result commonly attributed to slave breeding. New Orleans sales records are linked to the 1830 manuscript census to identify the holdings of slave sellers. Regression results indicate that slave sales caused higher child-woman ratios rather than the reverse. Because interregional traders preferred to purchase young adults rather than young children, higher child-woman ratios neither imply higher fertility nor slave breeding in the exporting areas of the South.

Url: https://www.lsu.edu/business/economics/files/seminar/pritchett-demographic-consequences-of-the-slave-trade.pdf

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Authors: Pritchett, Jonathan B

Publisher: Tulane University

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