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Blood Grouping of 336 Upper Aucaner Bush Negroes and 70 Alukuyana Indians in Dutch Guiana

Abstract

The Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana, South America, are of the identical blood as those Negro slaves originally transported to North America and the West Indies. The slaving ships which supplied these places all received their cargo from the same parts of the West African Coast. The region particularly concerned may be said to have extended from the Senegal river to the Congo mouth, including the adjacent interior for many miles back. The names of the known tribes which contributed black men to this hemisphere are too numerous to mention here, while others have been obliterated by time and the depredation of the slaving trade. The history and present day situation of the Bush Negro is however, unique in the annals of the Negro people in both North and South America.

Beginning in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, numbers of slaves on the plantations of Dutch Guiana escaped into the jungle.

Footnotes

¹ The writer wishes to make grateful acknowledgment to Dr. Arthur F. Coca, for his kindness in supplying the sera used in these tests, and also for his many helpful suggestions.