Loker asks whether the Jews recorded in colonial Saint Domingue ever formed organised communities, given that the first article of the Code Noir of 1685 ordered their expulsion. Working through parish registers copied for him by Gabriel Debien, the French indemnity liquidation records of 1826, notarial acts, Curaçao community documents and colonial law collections, he assembles an index of several hundred individuals, almost all Sephardic, arriving from Bordeaux and Bayonne, from Curaçao, and from Martinique and the Danish islands. He sorts them by region: Cap Français and Port-de-Paix in the north, Jérémie in the southwest, Les Cayes and Jacmel in the southeast, Port-au-Prince and Léogâne in the west. A minute book of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia preserves a solicitation for synagogue funds addressed to brethren at Cap Français, which he takes as documentary proof of a congregation there. Elsewhere he finds burial grounds, a prayer leader and scattered families without evidence of communal structure.