Importing of slaves was only banned in 1808. The slave population was around 1.2m. Some of the increase to 4m in 1860 was definitely smuggling. Cuba imported rather more slaves than its slave population warranted.
Temperate zone slavery was the only slavery in the Americas that seemed to be able to manage internal increase in the slave po…
Importing of slaves was only banned in 1808. The slave population was around 1.2m. Some of the increase to 4m in 1860 was definitely smuggling. Cuba imported rather more slaves than its slave population warranted.
Temperate zone slavery was the only slavery in the Americas that seemed to be able to manage internal increase in the slave population. The slaves died off far too quickly in the tropical Americas, hence slave diasporas are far more Christian in the temperate zone and far more African-derived religions in the tropical zone.
Importing of slaves was only banned in 1808. The slave population was around 1.2m. Some of the increase to 4m in 1860 was definitely smuggling. Cuba imported rather more slaves than its slave population warranted.
Temperate zone slavery was the only slavery in the Americas that seemed to be able to manage internal increase in the slave population. The slaves died off far too quickly in the tropical Americas, hence slave diasporas are far more Christian in the temperate zone and far more African-derived religions in the tropical zone.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1010169/black-and-slave-population-us-1790-1880/