Chapter 3
Social and demographic factors in creole formation
Article outline
- 3.1Introduction
- 3.2Social stratification and network relations
- 3.2.1Social stratification
- 3.2.2External networks
- 3.2.3Conclusion
- 3.3Demographic factors
- 3.3.1Introduction
- 3.3.2Factors related to immigration
- 3.3.2.1Africans
- 3.3.2.2Origins
- 3.3.2.3Age and sex distribution
- 3.3.2.4Europeans
- 3.3.3Factors related to population
- 3.3.3.1Africans and Europeans
- 3.3.3.2The rate of nativization among the Blacks
- 3.3.3.3The creole-to-bozal ratio among slave children on the plantations
- 3.3.3.4The creole-to-bozal ratio among Maroons
- 3.4Summary and conclusion
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