038840engo 2

The slave trade

and the peopling of Santo Domingo

285

Group providing most imports: Bantu

(Angola Coast).

Number of Negroes declared: 17,432.^1

Group providing most runaways: Bantu

(Kongos), out of about 2,600 an-

nouncements.

1787

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines,
Supplément aux Affiches Américaines,
Feuille du Cap-François and twice-
weekly supplement.
Number of slave-ships: 87.
Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean
group (Gold Coast, 44; Guinea
Coast, 0); (b) Bantu group (Angola
Coast, 20); (c) Sudanese group (Se-
negal, 14); and (d) other places
(Mozambique, African Coast, Sierra
Leone, Gabon, Quiola.
Group providing most imports: Guiñean
(Gold Coast).
Number of Negroes declared: 22,726.^2
Group providing most runaways: Bantu
(Kongos), out of about 2,500 an-
nouncements.

1788

Papers consulted: Feuille du Cap-

François and Affiches Américaines,

published Thursdays and Saturdays.

Number of slave-ships: 36.

1. The total number of negroes imported in
   1786 is 27,648, i.e. 2,592 at Léogâne, 873 at
   Jacmel, 385 at Les Cayes, 2,014 at Saint-
   Marc, 12,319 at the Cape, and 9,465 at
   Port-au-Prince (Affiches Américaines,
   10 March 1787).


2. Bryan Edwards gives a figure of 30,839 for
   Negroes imported in 1787. The nine car-
   goes shown under 'other places' include
   4 from Mozambique, 4 from the Gold
   Goast, and 1 from the coast of Africa.

Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 16; Guinea

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

Coast, 19); and (c) Sudanese group

(Senegal, 1).

Group providing most imports: Bantu.

Number of Negroes declared: 12,048.^3

Group providing most runaways: Bantu

(Kongos), out of about 2,800 an-

nouncements.

1789

Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines,

Supplément aux Affiches Américaines,

Feuille du Cap-François and supple-

ment; various other news items.

Number of slave-ships: 120.

Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean

group (Gold Coast, 48; Guinea

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

Coast, 44; Mozambique, 10); (c)

Sudanese group (Senegal, 6; Gambia,

1); and (d) other places (not specified,

4).

Unusual provenances: Isles of Los (at

the entrance to the port of Conakry,

Guinea), 1 ; Cape of Good Hope

(Bantu), 1 ; He de France (east of

Madagascar; now Mauritius), 2;

Prince's Isle (gulf of Guinea); 1; a

total of 5, of which 3 are Bantu.

Group providing most imports: Bantu.

Number of Negroes declared: 33,937.^4

Group providing most runaways: Bantu

(Kongos), out of about 3,150 an-

nouncements.

3. Bryan Edwards gives 29,506 Negroes
   imported in 1788. At least two cargoes
   declared as being from the ' Angola Coast'
   were from Mozambique.


4. The announcements of slave-ships arriving
   in 1789 mention the Cape, Port-au-Prince,
   Les Cayes, Jérémie, Jacmel, Léogâne and
   Saint-Marc.