A 1785 advertisement in a Charleston, South Carolina newspaper announced that 152 Africans from the Gambia River would go on sale June 7, 1785. The advert appealed to a preference for Gambians already well established in Carolina: “The Negroes from this part of the coast of Africa are well acquainted with the cultivation of Rice, and are naturally industrious.”
In a landmark 1969 book, Philip D. Curtin estimated that almost 30% of Africans brought to South Carolina came from Senegambia (the region around the Senegal & Gambia Rivers). Please consult Philip D. Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972 [1969]).
In a landmark 1969 book, Philip D. Curtin estimated that almost 30% of Africans brought to South Carolina came from Senegambia (the region around the Senegal & Gambia Rivers). Please consult Philip D. Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972 [1969]).
