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STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE
MOST SAINT LUCIAN FORMERLY ENSLAVED PEOPLE WERE NIGERIANS
President of the Saint Lucian Senate, Alvina Reynolds, underscored Nigeria's and Saint Lucian ancestral links by quoting the result of a British census conducted on the island in 1815, which showed that most of the residents came from Nigeria.
“Of the 16,282 enslaved people in Saint Lucia that year, 3,488 were born in Africa. Of these, 34% were from Nigeria, 11% from Nigeria-Cameroon, and 22% from the Congo. The remaining 12,794 were born in Saint Lucia, with most of their forefathers coming from Se...
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