if the slaves of haiti are from spain, what north african country did they come from during the slave trade?

Question

the first slaves from haiti are from spain from the north african slave trade so which country did they come from? is it morroco, mali, algeria or something?

Answer 1

They were mainly captured from the kingdom of Dahomey, which occupied parts of today's Togo, Benin and Nigeria, for the the French plantation owners.

Before that:

the Spanish occupied the island of Haiti, and renamed it Española (written in English as Hispaniola) meaning "little Spain". They exploited its gold mines and reduced the Tainos to slavery. According to early Spanish historian observers, there were as many as 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 Tainos on the island in 1492. Around fifty years after the arrival of Columbus in the Americas, most of the Tainos in Haiti were wiped out through the hardship of their condition as slaves, organized massacres or diseases they contracted from the Spaniards. The genocide of the Tainos in Haiti was one of the most brutal and the annihilation committed on the Indians of the New World by Columbus and his men, one of the most complete in History. Later on, Bartolomew Las Casas, a Spanish priest, revolted against the massacre of the Indians and demanded the cessation of the injustices committed every day against these people in Hispaniola. He advocated for the importation of Blacks from Africa to work on the mines as a mean of ending Indian slavery in the island. Thus, in 1503, the first blacks landed on the island. These blacks, however, came from Spain and not from Africa. Years later, the Spanish would leave Hispaniola for the richest lands of South America where the gold mines were still fresh and rich of the precious metal

Answer 2

They are not from Spain. About 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.

There is a map of the source of African slaves at the link below, it's not specific to Haiti but it may help.

Answer 3

~If they are from Spain, they didn't come from North Africa - they came from Southwest Europe, and more particularly, from the Iberian Peninsula. Duh.