Whilst perusing a short article by Gabriel Debien, again, we encountered some pretty remarkable tables on the bossales in Saint Domingue's plantations in the Arcahaie and Saint-Marc areas. One of the very large sugar plantations near Montrouis held 317 enslaved people in c. 1783, almost half Creoles. Nonetheless, it is remarkable to see the degree to which the captive African population there drew from all sources of slaves in the French colony. One can see "Mozambiques" from southeastern Africa, Hausas from the Central Sudan, a large number of Congos, and a variety of peoples likely purchased from the Slave Coast. Interestingly, this part of Saint Domingue was not noted for a large Igbo population, so the Ibos were not as numerous as one might think. Debien's short article, "De l'Afrique a Saint Domingue" includes multiple tables showing the breakdown by "nation" and gender for enslaved people held in the Nord, Arcahaie, and Leogane areas.
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