Slave imports to Saint-Domingue peaked at nearly 48,000 in 1790

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• An estimated 685,000 slaves were brought to Saint-Domingue in the eighteenth century (similarity 0.85)
• Enslaved Africans vastly outnumbered whites and free-coloreds in Saint-Domingue (similarity 0.83)
• News of restored slavery elsewhere in the Caribbean confirmed fears in Saint-Domingue. (similarity 0.82)
• West-central Africa supplied 40 percent of Saint-Domingue’s eighteenth-century slave imports (similarity 0.82)
• Saint-Domingue absorbed roughly ten percent of the entire Atlantic slave trade. (similarity 0.82)
• Kongo captives were the largest slave group imported to Saint-Domingue. (similarity 0.80)
• Slave imports collapsed after 1790 yet the transatlantic trade continued mid-revolt (similarity 0.80)
• Slaves who fought for France at Cartagena gained their freedom (similarity 0.80)
• Arab slave traders extracted roughly 17 million people from Africa over nine centuries (similarity 0.80)
• Cuba replaced Saint-Domingue as the Atlantic’s leading sugar supplier with massive slave imports (similarity 0.79)
• Saint-Domingue generated more trade than all of Britain’s colonies combined (similarity 0.79)
• Eighteenth-century slave revolts were led mainly by African-born slaves (similarity 0.79)
• British traders transported over 3.6 million Africans to the New World. (similarity 0.79)
• Saint-Domingue’s trade alone exceeded all of Britain’s colonial trade (similarity 0.78)
• Most Saint-Domingue slaves were African-born by the late eighteenth century (similarity 0.78)