name the countries of africa that the haitian slaves who were from africa came from?

Question

im not talking about the Indians, im talking about the african descended haitians where did they come from as slaves through the 16th century?

Answer 1

Well - it doesn't fit with your 16th century part of your question but over half of the colonies slaves came from the Angola-Congo coast.

The historian John Thornton suggests one reason why the slave rebellion on St. Domingue (Haiti) was successful was because many of the slaves had fought before.

This is paraphrased from Adam Hochschild's book "Bury the Chains"

Massive slave imports in the 1780's to feed St. Domingue's booming sugar plantations meant that the great majority of Toussaint's troops were African-born. In Africa, many had fallen into slavery as prisoners of war. Among the wars they were veterans of were those on the Angola-Congo coast where about half of St. Domingue's slaves came from. Thorton has traced specific tactics used by Toussaint's commanders - both guerrilla raids and sophisticated attacks by masses of troops - to well-documented battles in that coastal region between local Africans and the Portuguese.