Kongo captives were the largest slave group imported to Saint-Domingue.

Evidence

As the Atlantic slave trade expanded over the eighteenth century, westcentral Africa became the largest source of slaves deported to the Americas. These slaves were supplied through Portuguese raids into the interior from the port of Luanda, from civil wars in the kingdom of the Kongo, and from kingdoms that captured slaves or received them as tribute from regions in the interior. In Saint-Domingue, these slaves were categorized under the generic term “Kongo” (which at the time was usually spelled “Congo”). They made up the majority of the slaves imported into the colony, accounting for 40 percent of the imports during the eighteenth century. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 150

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