Afro-Vincentian
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Approx. 68,125 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Approx. 68,125) |
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| Languages | |
| English | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
Afro-Saint Vincentians or African Saint Vincentians are residents of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines whose ancestry lies within Africa, especially West Africa. Most Vincentians are the descendants of African people brought to the island to work on plantations.
As of 2013, people of African descent are the majority ethnic group in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, accounting for 66% of the country's population. An additional 19% of the country is multiracial, with many mixed-race Saint Vincentians having partial African descent.
Already in 1654, when the French tried to dominate the Caribs, they recorded the presence of a 3,000 black people and much less pure Caribs ("Yellow"), without making any reference to his state of freedom or slavery. The number was ratified twelve years later by a report of the English Colonel Philip Warner: In Saint Vicent, a French possession, there are about 3000 black and none of the islands there are that amount of Indians. When in 1668, the British broke the treaty signed between France and the Caribs in Basse Terre, tried to impose, as a first measure of domain, that the Indians stopped of harboring to the blacks fugitives and which delivered them to the British as soon as they were required.
Actually, according researchers such as the linguist and specializing in the Garifuna language Itarala, most of the slaves arrived in Saint Vicent came from other Caribbean islands (as, according him, no boat arrived directly from Africa to the archipelago), who had settled in Saint Vicent in order to escape slavery in his land. So, in the island, came Maroons from all surrounding plantations from the islands, but were diluted in the strong culture of Carib resistance.
Although most of the slaves came from Barbados, slaves came also from places like St. Lucia and Grenada. The Barbadians and Saint Lucians arrived on the island in pre-1735 dates. Later, after 1775, most of the slaves who came running of the slavery from other islands were Saint Lucians and Grenadians.
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