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From: "Jean-Marie Baltimore" <>
Subject: Re: Slave Immigrants to Trinidad
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:39:42 +0200
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The mandingo empire used to cover areas such as part of Mali, Guinea, Guinea
Bissau, Senegal and Mauritania. Some of the Mandingo tribes are Malink,
Bambara, Sonink, Peuls and Dioulas
"Dean de Freitas" <> a crit dans le message de news:
...
> I posted this a while back, but it's pertinent to the current thread.
>
> TRINIDAD SLAVE CENSUS OF 1813
> Number of slaves 25,696
> Creole (i.e born in the West Indies) 11,633 (46% of total)
> African 13,984 (54% of total)
>
> BREAKDOWN OF AFRICAN BORN SLAVES
> Ibo (S.E. Nigeria) 2,863 - 20% of African
> Congo (Congo) 2,450 - 20%
> Moco (Cameroons) 2,240 - 17%
> Mandingo (Senegambia) 1,421 - 10%
> Kormantyn (Ghana - includes Fanti, Ashanti & others) - 1,068 - 7%
> Kwakwa (Ivory Coast) 473 - 3%
> Sierra Leone (Temne 169, Sisu 145, Kissi 63) - 377 2.5%
> Ibibio (Nigeria) 371 - 2.5%
> Raddah (Dahomey) 281 - 2%
> Chamba (Nigeria?) 275 - 2%
> Fulani (N. Sierra Leone) 171 - 1.2%
> Popo (Dahomey) 112 - 1%
> Hausa (N. Nigeria) 109 - 1%
> Yoruba (W. Nigeria) 10 - 0.07%
> Various tribes under 1% 818 - 6%
> Only port of departure known - 8.73%
>
> Source: "Seven Slaves and Slavery - Trinidad 1777-1838", by Father
> Anthony de Verteuil C.S.Sp., Scrip-J Printers, Port-of-Spain, 1992.
>
> The book relates the life stories of seven slaves in Trinidad to
> illustrate how they lived. It contains a chapter on the slave trade,
> and many vignettes on slave life.
>


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