The article cites a purchase of 1,000 schepel of small maize at one peso per schepel after a poor harvest. It provides the year but not the day. Grain procurement shows how colonial provisioning and food scarcity shaped enslaved people’s lives.
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The cited study reports 146 people from Elmina and five deaths during the voyage.