The mandingo empire used to cover areas such as part of Mali, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Senegal and Mauritania. Some of the Mandingo tribes are Malinké, Bambara, Soninké, Peuls and Dioulas "Dean de Freitas" <caribgw@bellsouth.net> a écrit dans le message de news: 7D69CCE8-ADB2-11D7-9918-000A9588C052@bellsouth.net... > I posted this a while back, but it's pertinent to the current thread. > > TRINIDAD SLAVE CENSUS OF 1813 > Number of slaves 25,696 > Creole (i.e born in the West Indies) 11,633 (46% of total) > African 13,984 (54% of total) > > BREAKDOWN OF AFRICAN BORN SLAVES > Ibo (S.E. Nigeria) 2,863 - 20% of African > Congo (Congo) 2,450 - 20% > Moco (Cameroons) 2,240 - 17% > Mandingo (Senegambia) 1,421 - 10% > Kormantyn (Ghana - includes Fanti, Ashanti & others) - 1,068 - 7% > Kwakwa (Ivory Coast) 473 - 3% > Sierra Leone (Temne 169, Sisu 145, Kissi 63) - 377 2.5% > Ibibio (Nigeria) 371 - 2.5% > Raddah (Dahomey) 281 - 2% > Chamba (Nigeria?) 275 - 2% > Fulani (N. Sierra Leone) 171 - 1.2% > Popo (Dahomey) 112 - 1% > Hausa (N. Nigeria) 109 - 1% > Yoruba (W. Nigeria) 10 - 0.07% > Various tribes under 1% 818 - 6% > Only port of departure known - 8.73% > > Source: "Seven Slaves and Slavery - Trinidad 1777-1838", by Father > Anthony de Verteuil C.S.Sp., Scrip-J Printers, Port-of-Spain, 1992. > > The book relates the life stories of seven slaves in Trinidad to > illustrate how they lived. It contains a chapter on the slave trade, > and many vignettes on slave life. >

I have just been going over the current offerings at the University of the West Indies Press (www.uwipress.com). I found a few books that are germane to this issue including: Trinidad Yoruba From Mother Tongue to Memory by Maureen Warner-Lewis Tim On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:39:42 +0200, "Jean-Marie Baltimore" <jean-marie.baltimore@wanadoo.fr> wrote: >The mandingo empire used to cover areas such as part of Mali, Guinea, Guinea >Bissau, Senegal and Mauritania. Some of the Mandingo tribes are Malinké, >Bambara, Soninké, Peuls and Dioulas >"Dean de Freitas" <caribgw@bellsouth.net> a écrit dans le message de news: >7D69CCE8-ADB2-11D7-9918-000A9588C052@bellsouth.net... >> I posted this a while back, but it's pertinent to the current thread. >> >> TRINIDAD SLAVE CENSUS OF 1813 >> Number of slaves 25,696 >> Creole (i.e born in the West Indies) 11,633 (46% of total) >> African 13,984 (54% of total) >> >> BREAKDOWN OF AFRICAN BORN SLAVES >> Ibo (S.E. Nigeria) 2,863 - 20% of African >> Congo (Congo) 2,450 - 20% >> Moco (Cameroons) 2,240 - 17% >> Mandingo (Senegambia) 1,421 - 10% >> Kormantyn (Ghana - includes Fanti, Ashanti & others) - 1,068 - 7% >> Kwakwa (Ivory Coast) 473 - 3% >> Sierra Leone (Temne 169, Sisu 145, Kissi 63) - 377 2.5% >> Ibibio (Nigeria) 371 - 2.5% >> Raddah (Dahomey) 281 - 2% >> Chamba (Nigeria?) 275 - 2% >> Fulani (N. Sierra Leone) 171 - 1.2% >> Popo (Dahomey) 112 - 1% >> Hausa (N. Nigeria) 109 - 1% >> Yoruba (W. Nigeria) 10 - 0.07% >> Various tribes under 1% 818 - 6% >> Only port of departure known - 8.73% >> >> Source: "Seven Slaves and Slavery - Trinidad 1777-1838", by Father >> Anthony de Verteuil C.S.Sp., Scrip-J Printers, Port-of-Spain, 1992. >> >> The book relates the life stories of seven slaves in Trinidad to >> illustrate how they lived. It contains a chapter on the slave trade, >> and many vignettes on slave life. >> >