Number of slaves assigned each value on the Worthy Park Estate 1730

The 242 slaves held on the Worthy Park Estate, Jamaica, in 1730, were assigned a cumulative value of 8,895 British pounds sterling. Black adult males made up just 44 percent of Worthy Park's slave population in 1730, however their assigned value was over 53 percent of the total slave value; adult female slaves were assigned a value fairly proportional to their share of the population, whereas child slaves were valued much lower than adults. Additionally the adults of each gender were separated into two groups, with the old, sick or disabled males assigned half of the value of younger males, while the old, sick or disabled females were valued at below half of their younger counterparts. It was estimated that 80 percent of Worthy Park's slaves in 1730 were born in Africa; this is reflective of the low survival and fertility rates of Caribbean slave plantations in these years, which relied on the importation of African slaves in order to sustain their slave populations.