Article
French
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Abstract
In 1775, the Galliffet plantations, located in the rich and prosperous colony of Saint-Domingue, gathered more than one thousand slaves on three large sugar plantations in Petite-Anse and two coffee plantations in Grande-Rivière. Managed by a scrupulous and good administrator named “procureur-gérant” thus an inventory detailed marital ties and many ties of filiation. It appears that most slaves were related and few were isolated individuals or without parents. In creolized sugar plantations located near a church, marriages were fairly common. They became exceptional on newly established and isolated coffee plantations. Nuptiality did not, however, have a net impact on birth rate, the couples being formed previously, most often around the age of twenty.