An example of how Asian Indians moved to colonial Haiti can be found in the life of a Bengal native, René Marie Antoine Zamor, Indien, du Bengale. France's National Archives contains digitized collections of the declarations of enslaved and free people of color in France, including a number of Saint Domingue blacks or mixed-race people. But let's return to the topic at hand. Only 14, the young Indian man was brought to France in 1773. He then went to Saint-Domingue, where his "owner" was in the military. He later returned to France in 1776. One can see here how Asian Indian slaves sometimes arrived in Saint-Domingue.
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