TheMina were a community of well-organized, enslavedBlack people inLouisiana who spoke a common language, most likely a dialect ofEwe that may have been related toFon.^[1]

Though some historians include the Mina with enslaved Africans sold fromElmina on theGold Coast, other historians believe they wereEwe people from the Bight of Benin.^[1] As part of how some Louisiana slave-holders managed enslaved people at the time, the maintenance of African linguistic–ethnic communities was tolerated and even encouraged.^[1] The Pointe Coupée Mina community arose following their enslavement and importation into Louisiana following 1782.^[2] Among enslaved Africans whose ethnicity was recorded in official documents between 1719 and 1820, Mina were the third-largest enslaved ethnic group in Louisiana.^[3]

Many Mina took part in thePointe Coupée Slave Conspiracy of 1791.

• Pointe Coupée Slave Conspiracy of 1795

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