"Greater Numbers of Fair and Lovely Women": White Women and the Barbadian Demographic Crisis, 1673–1715

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Emily Sackett
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abstract:In Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn used the 1680 census of Barbados to depict the island as a place where stunted population growth and brittle bonds of community plagued the island's white settler society. Dunn attributed Barbados's demographic disruption to low marriage and nuptiality rates. However, by reexamining population reports from Barbados between 1673 and 1715, "Greater Numbers of Fair and Lovely Women" reveals that low nuptiality and birth rates were symptoms of a greater problem: Barbados was hemorrhaging white men. Between 1673 and 1715, the number of white women and children on Barbados remained stable, while more than four thousand men drained from the colony. This new demographic analysis of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Barbados explores how white women came to form the foundation of their communities as white men left the island to seek new opportunities. Despite Barbados's reputation as a masculine and exploitative space largely bereft of the "civilizing" influence of white women and families, by the turn of the eighteenth century, the preservation of Barbados's settler society had fallen almost entirely to white women.
“更多美丽可爱的女性”:白人女性和巴巴多斯人口危机,1673-1715
在《糖与奴隶》一书中,理查德·邓恩利用1680年的巴巴多斯人口普查,将巴巴多斯描绘成一个人口增长迟缓、社区纽带脆弱、困扰着岛上白人定居者社会的地方。邓恩将巴巴多斯人口结构的混乱归因于低结婚率。然而,通过重新检查巴巴多斯1673年至1715年之间的人口报告,“更多美丽可爱的女性”表明,低结婚率和低出生率是一个更大问题的症状:巴巴多斯正在大量流失白人男性。在1673年至1715年间,巴巴多斯岛上白人妇女和儿童的数量保持稳定,而有4000多名男子离开了这个殖民地。这个关于17世纪末和18世纪初巴巴多斯的新的人口分析探讨了白人男性离开巴巴多斯岛寻找新的机会时,白人女性是如何形成她们社区的基础的。尽管巴巴多斯以男性化和剥削性著称,基本上没有受到白人妇女和家庭的"教化"影响,但到18世纪初,巴巴多斯定居者社会的维护工作几乎完全落在了白人妇女身上。
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