Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 The Atlantic slave trade and the early development of the English West Indies
- 2 Shipping and mortality
- 3 Slave prices in the Barbados market, 1673–1723
- 4 On the order of purchases by characteristics at slave sales
- 5 The demographic composition of the slave trade: an economic investigation
- 6 Estimating geographic persistence from market observations: population turnover among estate owners and managers in Barbados and Jamaica, 1673–1725
- 7 The economic structure of the early Atlantic slave trade: the challenge of Adam Smith's analysis
- Appendixes
- A The Royal African Company's homeward bound invoice account books
- B Data used in the analysis of passage mortality, 1720–5
- C Measuring persistence rates and the problem of common names
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index
B - Data used in the analysis of passage mortality, 1720–5
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 The Atlantic slave trade and the early development of the English West Indies
- 2 Shipping and mortality
- 3 Slave prices in the Barbados market, 1673–1723
- 4 On the order of purchases by characteristics at slave sales
- 5 The demographic composition of the slave trade: an economic investigation
- 6 Estimating geographic persistence from market observations: population turnover among estate owners and managers in Barbados and Jamaica, 1673–1725
- 7 The economic structure of the early Atlantic slave trade: the challenge of Adam Smith's analysis
- Appendixes
- A The Royal African Company's homeward bound invoice account books
- B Data used in the analysis of passage mortality, 1720–5
- C Measuring persistence rates and the problem of common names
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index
Summary
The data used in Chapter 2 to analyze the passage mortality of slaves are drawn principally from a volume entitled “List of Ships and their Voyages in the Service of the Royal African Company of England from November the 4th 1719 To 1733.” This volume contains summary records of all voyages made on the Royal African Company's behalf in this period, including a large number of shuttle voyages carrying goods from England to West Africa and back, but it includes records of a total of 38 transatlantic slaving voyages made by the company between 1720 and 1725. Table B.1 presents information for these voyages on some variables used in the analysis of passage mortality. The variables listed for each voyage are the following:
Ship's name
Whether the ship was hired or owned by the Royal African Company
Recorded tonnage of the ship
Crew size (This appears to be the number of men hired at the beginning of a voyage in England. The register contains no further information on subsequent changes in crew size or mortality during the voyage.)
Number of guns carried
Date of departure from Great Britain (This and other dates are given as month/day/last two digits of year.)
Date of arrival in Africa
Place of arrival in Africa
Number of slaves the ship was intended to carry from Africa
Number of slaves with which the ship departed from Africa
Date of departure from Africa
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- Traders, Planters and SlavesMarket Behavior in Early English America, pp. 163 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986