Population Figures for Haiti Which I've Noted in My Reading

Compiled by Bob Corbett

HAITI AS A WHOLE

• 1665 (Barskett)
  400 planters in S.D.

• 1681 ( Laguerre 1989)
  6658 total
  4336 free
  2322 slaves
  

• 1684 (Davis--Passage)
  2200 blacks
  1421 colonists
  1565 indentured (from Fouchard, 1981)
  

• 1687 (Laguerre, 1989)
  3582 black slaves
  

• 1753 (Laguerre, 1989)
  12,799 white
  4732 freemen
  164,859 slaves
  

• 1754 ( Waxman, p. 2)
  14,000 white
  4,000 mulatto
  192,000 slaves
  

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  210,000 total
  (Barskett) most likely the source for
  Waxman, but he says 172,000 slaves.
  

• 1755 (Laguerre, 1989)
  20,438 white
  5897 freemen
  261,471 slaves
  

• 1771 ( Stein, Sonthonax)
  Free men of color 6,000
  Whites 18,000
  

• 1789 only about 5,000 whites remainded (Dupuy)

• 1789 (Stein--Sonthonax) 28,000 free men of color 30,000 whites Cap Haitien: 7200
  • 2800 white
  • 400 free men
  • 4000 slaves

  • 1805 (Barskett)
    400,000 total population, and men were scarce.

  • 1818 500,000 (Dupuy)
  • mid 1820s (Nicholls, 1979) under 800,000
    32,000 army
  • 1842 800,000 (Leyburn)
  • 1860 1,000,000 (Dupuy)
  • 1915 2,000,000 (Healy)
  • 1922 2,000,000 (Dupuy)
  • 1930 2,600,000 (Leyburn)
  • 1940 3,000,000 (Leyburn)

PORT-AU-PRINCE

• 1749 1,200 (Fass)
• 1751 3,000 (Fass)
• 1790 14,754 (Holly)
  2754 whites
  4000 Affranchais
  rest slaves
• 1792 8,000 (de Wimpffen)
• 1802 30,000 (Korngold)
• 1804 7,000 (Fass)
• 1895 60,000 (Fass)
• 1915 60,000 to 100,000 (Healy)
• 1950 150,000 (Fass)
• 1976 640,00 (Fass)

CAP HAITIEN

• 1915 18,000 TO 30,000 (Healy)

ARAWAK/TAINO NATIVE INDIANS

• 15 years after the Spanish the Arawaks were reduced from 500,000 to 60,000 (Davis--Passage)

COLUMBIAN TIMES

• Haiti was virtually deserted until bucaneers of 1629. (Leyburn)

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