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| | Journal of Social History: Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. . - Reviews - book review |
 | | In 1663, most Bermudian landholders owned fifty acres or less, and the size of the average landholding diminished markedly during the next hundred years. |
 | | Indeed, white Bermudians, unnerved by the discovery of a slave conspiracy in 1673, passed a law the following year to prohibit the traffic in "Negroes, Indians, and Mallatoes." Bermuda's male and female slaves, present in roughly equal numbers, married, formed families, and reproduced themselves naturally within several decades of colonization. |
 | | Bermudian masters, according to Bernhard, even seem to have grown disinclined to lash their merely recalcitrant slaves. |
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