History about slavery at St Domingue before 1789 Jean Maurice Sanon

The revolt grew rapidly. A month into revolt, left the plantation and joined the revolt. Already 45, he had learned to read and write. The revolt quickly became the focus of fierce inter-imperialist rivalry in the Caribbean. Toussaint ,along with a few hundred men, joined the Spanish troops, and proceeded to organize what would be the core of the revolution army.

The colony of Saint Domingue, now the Republic of Haiti,was France’s most prosperous colony when the French Révolution began in 1789. It supply half of Europe with sugar,coffee and cotton. All of this was produced by slave labor men, women and children who were constantly being forcibly brought from Africa. After 1789, 40.000 slaves were brought to Saint Domingue each year.

The colony was before the revolution, the most prosperous of the french overseas possession thanks to its coffee and sugar cane plantations and its many slaves... .... ....