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Harmful Silica Fibres and Slave Demography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2011

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The demography of the free and forced migrations to the New World was dramatically different. Between 1500 and 1800 about three million Europeans migrated to the New World resulting in a resident population of about 13.5 million ex-Europeans around 1800. During the same three centuries about nine million African slaves were brought to the New World resulting in a population of only six million ex-Africans.

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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1999

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