TY - GEN AU - Higman, B. W., ED - American Council of Learned Societies. TI - Slave population and economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 PY - 1995/// CY - Kingston, Jamaica PB - The Press, University of the West Indies KW - Slavery KW - Jamaica KW - History N1 - Includes bibliography (p. 311-323) and index; Electronic text and image data; Ann Arbor, Mich.; University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing; 2004; Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text; ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]); Mode of a ccess: Intranet; This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation N2 - "First published in 1976 (see HLAS 40:2983), work is a masterful ana lysis of the dynamics of slave labor in the economic growth of early-19 th-century Jamaica. Discusses various characteristics of slave and free -colored population including mortality, birth rates, manumission, dist ribution, and structure, as well as jobs performed on island as a whole . Contains excellent statistical tables and new introduction by author" --Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58 UR - htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00725 ER -