The first slaves brought to the archipelago came of Bermuda (the slaves of this archipelago were, at least, of Angolan and Ghanaian descent). Most of slaves hailed from Central Africa, more than 37,000 were exported to The Bahamas. The rest of the slaves were from Senegambia (although alone were exported to The Bahamas, about 806 slaves from that area), Sierra Leone (only 1,187 slaves in that region), Windward Coast (1,030 slaves were imported from this area), from Ghana (only 484 slaves in that region), the Bight of Benin (1,044 slaves arrived to The Bahamas from there), from Nigeria (specifically Igbo. Slaves from Bight of Biafra and Equatoguinean adjacent islands were over 21,000) [2] and ethnicity such as Akan origin (Fante - Ashanti), Yoruba, Fulani and Kongos to country during the colonial period, which influenced on the current Bahamian Dialect. Many Bahamians are also descendants of Gullah imported to archipelago during the American Revolution. In 1821, some Angolans from the United States migrated to The Bahamas. Currently more than 30,000 Haitians migrants live in the archipelago.
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