French slave trade crews died at higher rates than enslaved captives

Evidence

Curtin, ibid., p. 282. For the period 1714–78, Stein puts the death “rate” of crews in the French slave trade at 13 percent and argues: “crew mortality was on the average higher than slave mortality at least along the coast and on the Middle Passage.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1877

Categorization

• XREF: Suggests an angle connecting to the reader’s interest in The Soundscape/One Square Inch books’ theme of overlooked casualties — and to the wider question of who bore the physical costs of the Atlantic economy.