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The slave trade

and the peopling of Santo Domingo

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Affiches Américaines, 29 May: The

Lion, privateer of the Cape, has taken

and brought to Les Cayes afénau [ ?]

with a cargo of Negroes being sent

from St Lucia to Jamaica under the

Portuguese flag.

Supplément aux Affiches Améri-

caines, 24 July: 'The Senac arrived at

the Cape coming from Senegal with

a cargo of 56 blacks.

'217 blacks traded on the coast of

Mozambique introduced into this

port by the Gänge, from Lorient.'

Affiches Américaines, 16 October

Stanislaus Foache, Hellot and Co.,

'hold a sale from the slave-ship Acrà

coming from the Gold Coast'.

Affiches Américaines, 20 November :

The Danish ship Kristiansborg 'with

a very fine cargo of 200 Negroes from

the Gold Coast' to be disposed of by

Foache, Hellot.

Group providing most imports: Guiñean

(Gold Coast), but this cannot be

vouched for because of the irregu-

larity of the announcements.

Group providing most runaways: Bantu

(Kongos), out of about 1,900 an-

nouncements.

1782

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines
and Supplément aux Affiches Amé-
ricaines
Number of slave-ships: The list below
includes all the announcements relat-
ing to the slave trade for 1782:

1. Out of the 202 Negroes in this cargo, seven
   ran away soon after arrival: [Seven run-
   aways new Negroes of the Mandingo
   nation, unbranded, from the sale of the
   slave ship captured from the enemies of
   the State early last month; they ran away
   from the domicile of M. Sainte-Marie in
   the district of Le Borgne in the night of
   the 16th to the 17th."

"The Fleurie of Nantes, coming

from Senegal with 130 Negroes.

"The Chambellan Schask, a Danish

ship with a cargo of 400 blacks from

the Gold Coast for Foache, Hellot

and Co.

'The Patience of St Thomas, with

a fine cargo of 200 Negroes from the

Gold Coast for Lory, Plombard and

Co.

'Foache, Morange and Co., an-

nounce that they have just received

a very fine cargo of 271 Negroes from

the Gold Coast.

'Lory and Plombard announce

that they have for sale 31 head of

new Negroes of the Arada nation,

and in the following week 59 other

new Negroes, also Aradas.

'Foache, Morange announce the

arrival of a very fine cargo of

207 Negroes from the Gold Coast.

'Abeille and Guys have for sale

12 fine Negroes from the Angola

Coast, and Foache has 50 head of

Negroes from the Gold Coast.

"The Duchesse de Polignac of

St Malo, coming from Gabinde, with

arrival of 800 blacks from the Angola

Coast.

'Martineau and Blanchard have

50 fine new Negroes for sale.

'Roux and Rivière have received a

cargo from the brigantine Elsinore.'

Group providing most imports: Guiñean.

Group providing most runaways: Bantu

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

nouncements.

1783

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines,

and Supplément aux Affiches Amé-

ricaines