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The Atlantic Slave Trade and Population Density: A Historical Demography of the Biafran Hinterland

2000· article· en· W1819268281 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDemographyGeographyAtlantic slave tradePopulationHistoryAncient historySociology

Abstract

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Cet article traite de l’impact démographique du commerce transatlantique des esclaves sur l’arrière-pays du Golfe du Biafra, et de la répartition à l’intérieur des régions des captifs destinés à l’exportation. Il remet en question le point de vue de Joseph Inikori et Boniface Obichere selon lequel le Middle Belt au nord de la région procurait le plus grand nombre de captifs envoyés en esclavage outre-Atlantique. L’article, s’appuyant sur les journaux de bord de marins, des sources du Nouveaumonde, des échantillons d’exportation, des comptes-rendus ethnographiques, des traditions orales et des données comparatives montre au contraire que Igboland, plus près de la côte procurait le plus grand nombre de captifs destinés par le Biafra à l’exportation. Bien que plusieurs régions d’Igoboland aient souffert de dépopulation en général, la région a conservé de fortes densités parce que sa population s’est maintenue grâce à l’immigration des régions périphériqueset à l’Igboisation des groupes jusque là non Igbo.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.919
Threshold uncertainty score0.930

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.195
Teacher spread0.166 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it