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Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914
(2023-07)
In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological
choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing
an incredible wealth of data for a full population in ...
The failed promise of freedom: Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean
(2024-01)
Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after
emancipation from slavery? What were ex-slaves’ prospects to improve their socioeconomic
status after emancipation? To shed some light on these ...
Occupational structure in a black settler colony: Sierra Leone in 1831
(2024-01)
Occupational structure is a valuable proxy for economic development when
more direct indicators are lacking. This study employs occupational structure for the
Colony of Sierra Leone in 1831 with the aim of contributing ...
Numeracy and the legacy of slavery Age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s-1880s
(2024-02)
In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to acquire, and how this changed following emancipation, is not well known. We ...
The persistence of wealth Economic inequality in a Caribbean slave colony in the very long run
(2024-02)
It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture. We contribute with a study on the wealth distribution in a ...
Thriving in a declining economy - Elite persistence in the West Indies, 1760-1914
(2024-03)
The issue of how elites as a social group come to be, how they maintain their
position and how they affect the society they come to control is very much at the centre
of the inequality debate. The present paper studies ...
Slavery, Resistance and Repression: A Quantitative Empirical Investigation
(2024-03)
In this article, we study what individual and social characteristics made it more likely for an individual to resist slavery. We employ a unique census from the Caribbean island of St. Croix in 1846, which allows us to ...