Prologue: “So you had the guts to kill your children?” 11
Part 1
1 On war and peace among slaves 21
2 On the supports to this study 33
Part 2
3 On the numbers of men and Africans 51
4 On feeling part of a slave family 61
5 The relation between occupation and the slave family 89
6 The stability of slave families 97
Part 3
7 The practices that established the pacifying family 111
8 The political rewards of slave families: a contribution 141
Conclusion 147
Appendixes 155
Bibliographical references 205