caa a22 4500 386344361 CHVBK 20180307111806.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021853700030863 doi S0021853700030863 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021853700030863 Geggus David University of Florida Sex Ratio, Age and Ethnicity in the Atlantic Slave Trade: data from French shipping and plantation records [Elektronische Daten] [David Geggus] This article examines the age and sex composition of the Atlantic slave trade in the belief it was of considerable significance in shaping black society in both Africa and the Americas. Focusing on the French slave trade, two main samples are analysed. One is composed of 177,000 slaves transported in French ships during the years 1714-92, which is taken from the Répertoire des expéditions négrières of Jean Mettas and Serge Daget. The other, derived from nearly 400 estate inventories, consists of more than 13,300 Africans who lived on Saint Domingue plantations in the period 1721-97. The results are compared with existing knowledge of the demo-graphic composition of the Atlantic slave trade to show the range of variation that existed through time between different importing and exporting regions, and to shed light on the forces of supply and demand that determined the proportions of men, women and children who were sold as slaves across the ocean. Significant and consistent contrasts are found between different ethnic groups in Africa and different slaveholding societies in the New World, many of them thus far unnoticed in the scholarly literature. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 The Journal of African History Cambridge University Press 30/1(1989-03), 23-44 0021-8537 30:1<23 1989 30 AFH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700030863 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700030863 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Geggus David University of Florida NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of African History Cambridge University Press 30/1(1989-03), 23-44 0021-8537 30:1<23 1989 30 AFH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge