HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Saint-Domingue, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Toussaint Louverture
1 Nov 2017
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The revolutions in america and france had some immediate and unintended consequences in other parts of the world. An important example was what happened in the colony of saint domingue the french half of the island of plantations. In saint domingue, france(cid:495)s largest and most profitable colony in the. Like all the major european states, the french engaged in the transportation of enslaved africans to the caribbean to work on sugarcane. Caribbean, alongside the 35,000 whites and 500,000 slaves, lived over 28,000 free people of colour, some of whom owned slaves themselves, but who had practically no political or civil rights. The outburst of revolutionary activity in france led to unrest in saint domingue. After news of the proclamation of the declaration of the rights of man and the. Citizen, conflict broke out between the white plantation owners or (cid:494)planters(cid:495) as they are usually called and the free people of colour in the colony.
