Saint Domingue Slave Imports in 1786

Another gem from ANOM's collection of digitized census rolls and similar information from Saint Domingue includes a 1786 document on slave imports and the colony's enslaved population. This is interesting in that it records only 2 slave ships visited the port of Jacmel that year, unloading 312 captives. The port was clearly of marginal importance for the slave ships visiting the island from Africa. Unsurprisingly, this indicates that the majority of the slaves in Jacmel must have been purchased from Port-au-Prince, other parts of the island, or smuggled illegally.