Charles the Bambara

Randomly perusing the indexed digitized records of the Haitian Civil Registration on Family Search has truly revived our interest in the African-born Haitian population of the 19th century. Here we have a Charles, of the "Banbara" nation, or Bambara, registering in 1810 in Port-au-Prince. Estimated his age at 40, he was probably born around 1770 and must have came to Saint Domingue relatively young, perhaps as an adolescent. We wish someone could compile enough sources to write a detailed study of some of these Africans in early Haiti.