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Number of slave-ships: 29.

Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 13; Guinea

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

Coast, 9); (c) Sudanese group (Sene-

gal, 3); and (d) other places (Porto-

Cabello, Cape of Good Hope, 3).

Group providing most imports: Guiñean.

Number of Negroes declared: 5,531.

Group providing most runaways: Bantu

(Kongos), out of 1,386 announce-

ments.

1784

Papers consulted: Afßches Américaines
and Supplément aux Affiches Amé-
ricaines.
Number of slave-ships: 71.
Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean
group (Gold Coast, 27; Guinea
Coast, 0); (b) Bantu group (Angola
Coast, 37); and (c) Sudanese group
(Senegal, 7).
Group providing most imports: Bantu
(Angola Coast).
Number of Negroes declared: 14,161?

1. This cargo is said to the ' from the Coast of
   Guinea', but at the sale the same cargo
   is referred to as 'Negroes from the Gold
   Coast'. Similar errors in the location of
   certain ports or even of certain ethnic
   groups are corrected in the statistics which
   follow.


2. A table showing arrivals of slave-ships
   for 1784 was published in the Affiches in
   1785. This table shows 82 ships, a figure
   fairly near the one given above, but as
   against the 14,767 Negroes indicated
   above as put up for sale, it says that
   22,830 were obtained for the trade, of
   whom 3,578 died during the crossing. This
   brings the real number of imports to
   19,252. The table deals only with sales of
   Negroes in the ports at the Cape and at
   Port-au-Prince, omitting other slaving
   ports in Santo Domingo such as Saint-
   Marc, Léogâne, St Louis, etc.

Group providing most runaways: Bantu

(Kongos), out of 1,489 announce-

ments.

1785

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines

and Supplément aux Affiches Améri-

caines (enlarged format from 1785

on).

Number of slave-ships: 50.

Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 20; Guinea

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

Coast, 23); (c) Sudanese group

(Senegal, 5); and (d) other places

(Mozambique, 1).

Group providing most imports: Bantu

(Angola Coast).

Number of negroes declared: 12.148.^3

Group providing most runaways: Bantu

(Kongos), out of about 2,400 an-

nouncements.

1786

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines,

Supplément aux Affiches Américaines,

Feuille du Cap-François and Feuille

du Port-au-Prince (with supplement).

Number of slave-ships: 62.

Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 22 ; Guinea Coast,

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

27) ; (c) Sudanese group (Senegal, 11) ;

and (d) other places (Mozambi-

cans, 2).

3. The Affiches published in 1786 a summary
   table for 1785 with the following figures:
   number of slave-ships, 65; number of
   slaves sold, 21,652. This time it is speci-
   fied that this figure concerns the ports of
   Port-au-Prince, the Cape, Léogâne, Les
   Cayes, Saint-Marc and Jacmel.