“We can be assured that in this instance ‘Coromantee’ referred to a sizable Akan presence, granted the foregoing cultural evidence. Demographically, an average of 40 percent of the Africans imported to Barbados came from the Gold Coast between 1650 and the 1710s, and a historical aggregate of at least 136,000 Africans came from the Gold Coast–only Jamaica had a higher total in the British Caribbean.”

-Kwasi Konadu, The Akan Diaspora in the Americas