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

Coast, 30); and (c) Sudanese group

(Gorée, Senegal, 1).

Croup providing most imports: Bantu.

Number of Negroes declared: 10,921.

Group providing most runaways: Bantus

(Kongos), out of about 2,100 an-

nouncements.

1777

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines
and Supplément aux Affiches amé-
ricaines.
Number of slave-ships: 50.
Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean
group (Gold Coast, 20; Guinea
Coast, 1); (b) Bantu group (Angola
Coast, 22); (c) Sudanese group
(Gorée, Senegal, 5) and (d) other
places^1 (Mozambicans, 2).
Group providing most imports: Bantu.
Number of Negroes declared: 11,387.
Group providing most runaways: Bantus
(Kongos), out of about 2,000 an-
nouncements.

1778

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines
and Supplément aux Affiches Améri-
caines (double supplement)
Number of slave-ships: 49.
Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean
group (Gold Coast, 28); (b) Bantu
group (Angola Coast, 17; Mozam-

1. The Mozambicans belong to the Bantu
   group.

bicans, 2); and (c) Sudanese group

(Senegal, 2).

Group providing most imports: Guiñean

(Gold Coast).

Number of Negroes declared: 10,336.

Group providing must runaways: Bantus

(Kongos), out of about 1,700 an-

nouncements.

1779

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines

and Supplément aux Affiches Améri-

caines (double supplement).

Number of slave-ships : The long Ameri-

can War of Indépendance disrupted

the slave trade. Because of insecurity

at sea there are practically no an-

nouncements of slave-ship arrivals,

apart from the following three, from

which it is not possible to determine

the respective size of the groups:

(a) 2 March 1779—The Négresse of

Le Havre, coming from the Gold

Coast and arriving at the Cape on

25 February. Out of this cargo,

89 Negroes are announced for sale;

(b) Affiches Américaines, 15 June

1779—'Two English ships with car-

goes of Negroes from captures made

in the rivers of Gambia and Sierra

Leone in Africa by the division

commanded by M. de Pondevis-

Gren. The names of these ships are

the Providence and the Herifort.'

Affiches Américaines, 17 August—

The Nymphe coming from the

African coast.

Group providing most runaways: Bantus

(Kongos), followed first by a higher

than usual percentage of creóle or

West Indian Negroes, and then by

Nagos and Mondongos; out of about

1,300 announcements.