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Appendix: Summary account

of the slave trade to Santo Domingo,

1764-93

1764

Papers consulted: Gazette de Saint-
Domingue, various announcements
and Affiches Américaines.
Number of slave-ships : 31.
Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean
group (Gold Coast, 10; Guinea
Coast, 9); (b) Bantu group (Angola
Coast, 10); (c) Sudanese group
(Goree, Senegal, 1) and (d) other
places (bought in Martinique, 1).
Group providing most imports: Guiñean
group (Guinea and Gold Coasts), 19,
as against 10 ships from the Angola
Coast (Kongos, 'Francs-Kongos')
dealing in slaves from the Bantu
group.
Number of Negroes declared:^1 6,681.
Group providing most runaways in same
year: Bantu group; out of 405 announ-
cements, the majority already related
to Kongos.^2

1. While the gazettes usually give the slave-
   ships' provenance, they often omit to
   show how slaves there were in each cargo.
   So the number of Negroes declared every
   year does not always correspond to the
   volume of imports. But it does give some
   idea of which group predominated at the
   time in the peopling of the colony.


2. The figures given here for runaways are
   not always strictly accurate. For most
   years I have preferred to give only an
   estimate, since there was not time to
   examine one by one the 48,000 announce-
   ments spread over some thirty years.

1765

Papers consulted: Various notices and

Affiches Américaines.

Number of slave-ships: 15.

Declared Provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 6; Guinea Coast,

6); (b) Bantu group (Angola Coast,

3); and (c) Sudanese group, 0.

Group providing most imports: Guiñean.

Number of Negroes declared: Only

2,180, whereas for the ports of the

Cape and Port-au-Prince alone the

real total was 11,900 {Affiches Amé-

ricaines, 12 March 1766).

Group providing most runaways: Bantus,

(Kongos), out of about 600 an-

nouncements.

1766

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines

Number of slave-ships: 35.

Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 11; Guinea

Coast, 7); (b) Bantu group (Angola

group, 15); and (c) Sudanese group

(Goree, Senegal, 2).

Group providing most imports: Guiñean :

18.

Number of Negroes declared: 9,602.

Group providing most runaways: Bantus

(Kongos), out of about 800 an-

nouncements.