An estimated 685,000 slaves were brought to Saint-Domingue in the eighteenth century

Evidence

From its founding as an illegal settlement in the 1600s until the abolition of slavery in 1793, hundreds of thousands of slaves were led off slavetrading vessels onto the shores of French Saint-Domingue. According to the most exhaustive inventory of slave-trading journeys, 685,000 slaves were brought into Saint-Domingue during the eighteenth century alone. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 146

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