French colony of Saint-Domingue

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Caribbean colony French colony sugar-producing colony

The French colony of Saint-Domingue was a wealthy Caribbean sugar-producing colony on the western part of Hispaniola that became the site of the Haitian Revolution and ultimately the independent nation of Haiti.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Saint-Domingue	14
northern Saint-Domingue	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Caribbean colony ⓘ French colony ⓘ sugar-producing colony ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	French colony of Saint-Domingue ⓘ surface form: Saint-Domingue
alsoPracticedReligion	African-derived religions ⓘ
borderedBy	Spanish colony of Santo Domingo ⓘ
capital	Cap-Français ⓘ
capitalTodayName	Cap-Haïtien ⓘ
colonialPower	France ⓘ Kingdom of France ⓘ
colonialStatus	French overseas colony ⓘ
commonLanguage	Haitian Creole ⓘ
countryToday	Haiti ⓘ surface form: Republic of Haiti
endDate	1804 ⓘ
endEvent	Haitian Revolution ⓘ
establishedByTreaty	Treaty of Ryswick ⓘ
eventOccurred	Haitian Revolution ⓘ
eventStart	1791 slave uprising ⓘ
knownFor	being one of the wealthiest colonies in the Caribbean ⓘ being the site of the Haitian Revolution ⓘ harsh slave regime ⓘ large-scale sugar production ⓘ
laborSystem	plantation slavery ⓘ
locatedInOcean	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
locatedInRegion	Caribbean ⓘ
locatedInSea	Caribbean Sea ⓘ
locatedOnIsland	Hispaniola ⓘ
locatedOnPartOfIsland	western part of Hispaniola ⓘ
mainCashCrop	coffee ⓘ cotton ⓘ indigo ⓘ sugar ⓘ
majorPortCity	Cap-Français ⓘ Port-au-Prince ⓘ
modernTerritoryIncludes	Haiti ⓘ surface form: Republic of Haiti
notableLeaderAssociated	Henri Christophe ⓘ Jean-Jacques Dessalines ⓘ Toussaint Louverture ⓘ
officialLanguage	French ⓘ
partOf	French colonial empire ⓘ
populationGroup	enslaved Black population ⓘ free people of color ⓘ white planters ⓘ
primaryLaborForce	enslaved Africans ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ
startDate	1697 ⓘ
successorState	First Empire of Haiti ⓘ Haiti ⓘ State of Haiti (northern republic) government ⓘ surface form: State of Haiti