Legal status:
(free/slave)
Color:
(white/quadroon/mulatto/black, etc.)
Culture:
(European/creolized/African)
Occupation:
(degree of skill/authority/mobility)
Other:
("unofficial" skills/status: African doctors, priests, princes)
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Ethnicity, Culture and Occupation
| Culture: | African Creolized | |
| Origin: | African Black Creole Mulatto | |
| Occupation: | Unskilled Skilled | |
| Legal Status: | Slave Free | |
[read table vertically for approximate correspondences]
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Occupational Structure on a Late l8th Century Sugar Estate
| WHITES | ||||
| Manager | ||||
| Book-keepers | ||||
| (Overseers) | ||||
| SLAVES | ||||
| FIELD | ARTISANS | DOMESTIC | OTHER | |
| "Slave Elite" | Slave-drivers | Head Artisans | Housekeeper | Other Headmen |
| (20%) | ||||
| [40% of men | Mason | Coachman | Wagoners | |
| 5% of women] | Blacksmith | Cook | Boilers | |
| Carpenters | Valets | Stockmen | ||
| Wheelwright | Servants | |||
| Coopers | Seamstress | Nurse | ||
| Laundresses | Midwives | |||
| Main Workforce | Fieldslaves | |||
| (50%) | (1st & 2nd gangs) | |||
| Children | Apprentices | |||
| (20%) | 3rd gang | |||
| Elderly | Watchmen | |||
| (10%) | Hedgecutters | |||
| Gatekeepers |
[Order of status: very roughly section by section, left to right, top to bottom]