consequences for the regions that lost a large number of their young, fertile population of working age. It is important to highlight that a large number of enslaved children were also sent to the Americas, exacerbating the demographic imbalance (Diptee, 2012; Campbell et al. 2009; Spicksley, 2015, pp. 247-75; Liberato et al., op. cit., p. 17). The difference between the number of women and men exported was influenced by the opinions of transatlantic traffickers as well as by the demands of the internal markets on the African continent for enslaved women and children. While traders in the Americas believed that African men were stronger and more skilled than their female counterparts, there was a demand for women in African societies due to local patterns in the social division of labour in which women were seen as better suited to agricultural work, as they could also be incorporated into local societies as concubines and maids, working in the domestic sphere and serving a reproductive purpose (Walvin, 1992, p. 109; Kriger, 2017, pp. 106-09; Schultz, 2015, p. 434). By acquiring enslaved females, slave owners in Africa and the Americas were thus able to invest in the natural reproduction of the enslaved population.