INVESTIGATION: the enslaved of Ayiti were of the land (Ayiti lens; deep dive Nov 3, 2026). RECORD FOR: (1) The land's own people were enslaved first: Taíno forced…

SUMMARYINVESTIGATION: the enslaved of Ayiti were of the land (Ayiti lens; deep dive Nov 3, 2026). RECORD FOR: (1) The land's own people were enslaved first: Taíno forced labor under the encomienda from 1503. (2) Indigenous people from across the Americas were shipped INTO Ayiti: Spaniards carried the Lucayans of the Bahamas to Hispaniola as slaves from 1509 to 1513, emptying the islands (Peter Martyr; Las Casas); captives from Tierra Firme followed. (3) The North American Native slave trade fed the islands: Carolina "exported as many or more Native American slaves than it imported Africans" before 1720, sending tens of thousands of Native people to New England and the Caribbean. (4) The people mixed and resisted together from the start: Christmas Day 1521, Wolof fighters attacked Diego Colón's plantation and joined the Taíno under Enriquillo, "the first collective action of both Africans and Taínos"; by 1548 maroons had destroyed about two-thirds of the island's 30-plus sugar plantations; in 1662, 600 maroon families held four palenques in the Bahoruco Mountains; the west was "already predominantly black space" before France's 1697 claim (Crystal Eddins, Age of Revolutions, 2020; Fouchard: "marooning is the dominant feature of all Haitian history"). (5) The revolutionaries named themselves the land's people: the army was the "Armée des Incas" before it became the "Armée indigène," the Indigenous Army, in January 1803 (Fombrun); Jan 1, 1804 they restored the island's own name, Ayiti; Dessalines: "I have avenged America." (6) Taíno ancestry survives in living Caribbean people (Schroeder et al., PNAS 2018; Hispaniola percentages need the full paper). AGAINST (rule 6, one standard): the slave-ship records (Slave Voyages database) count hundreds of thousands of Africans landed in the French colony, and most of the 1791 population is recorded as African-born ("bossales"); those records are ship and port papers, and the lens puts them on trial (who wrote them, why, who gained). STATUS: "Not all were brought over" = Record. "They were the same people, not brought over" = the Ayiti lens reading (Pattern), with the ship records as the counter-evidence to test. NEXT RECEIPTS: the 1514 repartimiento census of Hispaniola's Taíno; Spanish records of "indios" in the Bahoruco palenques; French records of "Indiens" and "Caraïbes" in Saint-Domingue; Geggus on the "Incas" in Haitian revolutionary language; the PNAS paper's Hispaniola numbers.