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Number of slave-ships: 39.

Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 11; Guinea

Coast, 5); (b) Bantu group (Angola

Coast, 21); and (c) Sudanese group

(Gambia and Senegal, 2).

Group providing most imports: Bantu.

Number of Negroes declared: 8,821.

Group providing most runaways: Bantus

(Kongos), out of about 1,000 an-

nouncements.

1773

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines,
Supplément aux Affiches Américaines,
and various announcements.
Number of slave-ships: 35.
Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean
group (Cold Coast, 15; Guinea
Coast, 0); (b) Bantu group (Angola
Coast, 19); and (c) other places
(Mozambicans, l).^1
Group providing most imports: Bantu.
Number of Negroes declared: 6,270.
Group providing most runaways: Bantus
(Kongos), out of about 1,000
announcements.

1774

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines
and Supplément aux Affiches Amé-
ricaines.

1. This is the first declared import of Negroes
   from East Africa. From now on, slaves
   from Madagascar and above all from
   Mozambique became more numerous.
   (The Supplément aux Affiches Américaines,
   24 July 1773, cargo unloaded on the 18th
   of the same month.) Despite the difficulties
   of carrying on the trade in this area,
   Quiola and other East African slaving
   centres were often preferred to the Gold
   and Angola Coasts.

Number of slave-ships: 35.

Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 7; Guinea

Coast, 2); (b) Bantu group (Angola

Coast, 24); and (c) Sudanese group

(Gorée, Senegal, 2).

Group providing most imports: Bantu.

Number of Negroes declared: 7,629.

Group providing most runaways: Bantus

(Kongos), out of about 1,600 an-

nouncements.

1775

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines

and Supplément aux Affiches Amé-

ricaines.

Number of slave-ships: 44.

Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 19; Guinea

Coast, 1); (b) Bantu group (Angola

Coast, 20); and (c) Sudanese group

(Gorée, Senegal, 4).

Group providing most imports: Bantu.^2

Number of Negroes declared: 7,965.

Group providing most runaways: Bantus

(Kongos), out of about 1,300 an-

nouncements.

1776

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines

and Supplément aux Affiches Amé-

ricaines.

Number of slave-ships: 58.

Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 26; Guinea

2. As the Guiñean and Bantu groups were
   equal this year as regards provenance,
   I was obliged in this case to use the list
   of Negroes declared to arrive at the rela-
   tive numbers of Guineans and Bantus. Out
   of 7,965 Negroes declared, more than half
   are said to come from the Angola Coast.