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Madagascar

Identifier: NJS-PLC-00139
Place Type: Country
Description: Madagascar is a large island off the southeastern coast of Africa. Beginning in the mid-17th century, it was one of the chief places that supplied captives for British slave traders. Madagascar played a particularly important role in the early development of the slave trade in New York and New Jersey. The first slave-trading voyage to drop anchor at Perth Amboy was called the Mariner's Adventure and it brought 114 enslaved Africans from Madagascar in 1686. About a thousand captives in total arrived in the region from Madagascar over the next 35 years, according to the data in the Slave Voyages database.
Country: Madagascar
Continent: Africa
Latitude: -20
Longitude: 47
References: Slave Voyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database. https://www.slavevoyages.org/.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar
Record Contributor: Jesse Bayker
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Persons of African descent linked to Madagascar:

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