Slavery in the colonial United States in the Caribbean: Guadeloupe and especially Saint-Domingue.) After the port of New Orleans was founded in 1718 with access to the Gulf Coast, French colonists imported more African slaves to the Illinois Country for use as agricultural or mining laborers. By the mid-eighteenth century, slaves accounted for as many as a third of the limited population in that rural area. Slavery was much more extensive in colonial Louisiana, where the French developed sugar cane plantations along the Mississippi river. Slavery was maintained during the French (1699 – 1763, and 1800 – 1803) and Spanish (1763 – 1800) periods of government.
Slavery in Spain behind those compared with other nations. Spanish colonization was the focus from 1500-1800 in the Americas. By 1800, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was slowly starting to decline, and Spain appeared to rush transporting slaves into Cuba, one of their biggest colonies. Through this, one can compare differences in ethnicity of former Spanish colonies as Cuba has a much higher African descent unlike Mexico which only appears to have received little to none before independence from Spain. 17. ^ Phillips, William D. Jr (November 2013). "The Middle Ages Series: Slaveri in Medieval and Early Modern Ilberia." University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 83,