Origins
| African ethnicities over 500 in Trinidad (1813) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Igbo | 2,863 | |
| Kongo | 2,450 | |
| Moko | 2,240 | |
| Malinké | 1,421 | |
| Total Africans | 13,984 | |
| Origins of Creoles over 400 in Trinidad (1813) | ||
| Trinidad | 7,088 | |
| Martinique | 962 | |
| Grenada | 746 | |
| Saint Vincent | 438 | |
| Guadeloupe | 428 | |
| Total Creoles | 11,633 | |
The ultimate origin of most African ancestry in the Americas is in West and Central Africa. The most common ethnic groups of the enslaved Africans were Igbo, Kongo and Malinke people. All of these groups, among others, were heavily affected by the Atlantic slave trade. The population census of 1813 shows that among African-born slaves the Igbo were the most numerous.
Around half of Afro-Trinidadians were the descendants of immigrants from other islands of the Caribbean, especially Martinique and Grenada. Other Afro-Trinidadians trace their ancestry to American slaves recruited to fight for the British in the War of 1812 or from indentured laborers from West Africa.
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