Plantations mixed slaves from a bewildering array of African nations.

Evidence

By the late eighteenth century many plantations in Saint-Domingue had significant concentrations of slaves from particular African regions. The slave population of one indigo plantation in the Western Province reflected the broader history of the slave trade: among its 92 slaves were 10 older Arada and 29 recently purchased Kongos. On one sugar plantation in the Southern Province there was a bewildering array of African groups: out of the 348 slaves, 58 were Kongos, 28 Ibos, 55 Nagos, 13 Bambara, 25 Arada, 23 Mines, 13 Morriquis, and 16 Sosos; there were smaller groups of Thiabas, Bobo, Mondongues, Senegals, Mocos, Hausa, Tacouas, and Yolofs (Wolofs). On another sugar plantation owned by the same man, of 439 slaves 112 were Kongos, 64 Aradas, 40 Nago, 9 Bambara, and smaller numbers of several other groups. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 153