286 Jean Fouchard
1790Papers consulted: Affiches Américaines,
Feuille du Cap-François, various news
items, Supplément aux Affiches Amé-
ricaines and Journal Général de
Saint-Domingue (October to
December).
Number of slave-ships: 170.
Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean
group (Gold Coast, 68); (b) Sudanese
group (Senegal, 3); (c) Bantu group,
(Angola Coast, 68; Mozambicans,
26; and (d) other places (unspeci-
fied, 3 ; Ile-de-France (Mauritius), 2).
Group providing most imports: Bantu
(Kongos and Mozambicans).
Number of Negroes declared: 46,471.^1
Group providing most runaways: Bantu
closely followed by Mozambicans),
out of about 3,500 announcements.
1791Papers consulted: Gazette de Saint-
Domingue, Politique, Civile, Écono-
mique et Littéraire, Affiches Améri-
caines (Wednesdays and Saturdays,
plus a supplement), Journal Général
de Saint-Domingue (January to
March), Courrier de Saint-Domingue,
Courrier National de Saint-Domingue,
Journal de Port-au-Prince and Assem-
blée Coloniale de la Partie Française.
Number of slave-ships: 58.
Declared provenance: (a) Guiñean
group (Gold Coast, 22; Guinea,
Isles of Los, 1); (b) Bantu group
(Angola Coast, 24; Mozambicans,
3); and (c) other places (African
- Both this figure and that for the number
of slave-ships are very large. Between
14 October, 17 slave-ships are announced
as arriving at the port of the Cape alone.
coast, 2, Ile-de-France (Mauritius),
1; unspecified: 3).
Group providing most imports: Bantu.
Group providing most runaways: Bantu
(Kongos, followed by many Mozam-
bicans), out of about 4,600 an-
nouncements.1792 and 1793Papers consulted: Journal Politique de
Saint-Domingue (edited by a member
of the Colonial Assembly), Affiches
Américaines, Journal des Révolutions
de la Partie Française de Saint-
Domingue, Moniteur de la Partie
Française de Saint-Domingue (daily
and supplement), Observateur Co-
lonial and Gazette des Cayes.^2
Number of slave-ships: The official
slave trade was coming to an end,
amidst serious upheavals in Santo
Domingo and increasingly vigorous
activity on the part of the aboli-
tionists. Announcements of slave-
ships' arrivals become more and more
rare, as if the new spirit forbade too
much attention being paid to this
controversial traffic. But slave ships
with well-known names continued to
come and go to and from the Cape
and Port-au-Prince. The papers show
that it is a slave ship by the length
of the crossing, but the ships' pro-
venance and the size of their cargoes
are not mentioned. The runaway
lists include creóles from Marti-
nique, Charleston and Marie-Galante
(showing that some slaves were
supplied by these neighbouring coun-
tries) as well as new Negroes, some-- These papers form part of the Moreau
de Saint-Méry Library, Archives de la
France d'Outre-Mer.