Did Africans Live Longer in the Antebellum United States?: The Sensitivity of Mortality Estimates of Enslaved Africans

IF 1.6 2区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Historical Methods Pub Date : 1995-03-01 DOI:10.1080/01615440.1995.9956358

A. McDaniel, C. Grushka

引用次数: 25

Abstract

This article argues that the accepted view of the mortality of enslaved Africans in the United States rests on fragile estimates; these estimates are not robust to flaws in the data....We examine the sensitivity of previous life table estimates for the African population of the United States to assumptions about the data. We combine modern demographic techniques and new model life tables--the Liberian model life tables--developed for the study of historical mortality....We focus our attention on two periods: 1850 to 1860 and 1860 to 1870. These periods cover the two major events that could have had an impact on the data namely the illegal slave trade and the American Civil War. (EXCERPT)

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非洲人在战前的美国活得更长吗?:被奴役非洲人死亡率估计的敏感性

本文认为，关于美国被奴役非洲人死亡率的公认观点是基于脆弱的估计;这些估计对于数据中的缺陷并不可靠....我们检验了美国非洲人口的先前生命表估计对数据假设的敏感性。我们结合了现代人口统计技术和新的模型生命表——利比里亚模型生命表——为研究历史死亡率....而开发我们把注意力集中在两个时期:1850年到1860年和1860年到1870年。这些时期涵盖了可能对数据产生影响的两个主要事件，即非法奴隶贸易和美国内战。(摘录)

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Historical Methods Multiple-

CiteScore

3.20

自引率

7.10%

发文量

期刊介绍： Historical Methodsreaches an international audience of social scientists concerned with historical problems. It explores interdisciplinary approaches to new data sources, new approaches to older questions and material, and practical discussions of computer and statistical methodology, data collection, and sampling procedures. The journal includes the following features: “Evidence Matters” emphasizes how to find, decipher, and analyze evidence whether or not that evidence is meant to be quantified. “Database Developments” announces major new public databases or large alterations in older ones, discusses innovative ways to organize them, and explains new ways of categorizing information.