Slave imports collapsed after 1790 yet the transatlantic trade continued mid-revolt

Evidence

Meanwhile, in March 1793 a boat called La Nouvelle-Société came to anchor in the harbor of Le Cap. Outfitted in Nantes, it had just made the crossing from the Zaire River, on the “Angola coast,” and had a “beautiful” cargo of 331 slaves for sale. Slave imports into Saint-Domingue had dropped dramatically since their peak of nearly 50,000 in 1790; fewer than 10,000 were brought in by French slavers during the course of 1792. Yet even with many of its cane fields turned to ash, there were still African men and women being brought to the colony in chains. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 524

Categorization

• XREF: The sharp drop from ~50,000 to under 10,000 imports contrasts sharply with the slave trade’s continuing operations, a data point that anchors wider Atlantic-world slavery historiography.