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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 ...
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 ...