Looking at little later in the Jacmel quarter, we found a 1737 inventory for the deceased Bainet planter, Philippe Latouche, located in the Gris-Gris section. The estate held 18 slaves, no children. We assume it was dedicated to indigo and may have had some typical characteristics of similar plantations in the region during the 1730s. What immediately comes to mind is that nearly half the slaves were "Congos" with only 2 Creoles (1 from Martinique).
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The Arada were present, yes, and 2 were of unknown derivation (one not provided while the other is illegible), but the Ibo and Bambara were only represented by 1 each. We must look for more inventories from the 1730s-1750s, but the "Congos" were always a sizable part of the population. By now the "Loango" seem to disappear (or perhaps the French were already using "Congo" as a general term for Central Africans), so one wonders about the French slave traders active in Loango during this time.
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