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1785-1790

1785-1790: An average of more than 30,000 Africans are imported each year as the Atlantic slave trade reaches its peak.

1785-1790: An average of more than 30,000 Africans are imported each year as the Atlantic slave trade reaches its peak. This rapid influx of people directly from Africa intensified the cultural and revolutionary energy of the colony.

Source Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 7; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 28