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French Saint-Domingue sugar and coffee economy (1715–1804)

French Saint-Domingue sugar and coffee economy (1715–1804)

  2. Coffee cultivation spreads alongside sugar plantations

    Labels: Coffee cultivation, Sugar plantations

  3. Post–Seven Years’ War boom accelerates plantation exports

    Labels: Seven Years', Saint-Domingue exports

  4. Saint-Domingue becomes Europe’s leading sugar-coffee supplier

    Labels: Saint-Domingue, European markets

  5. Northern slave uprising shatters plantation order

    Labels: Northern uprising, Enslaved insurgency

  6. French commissioners proclaim emancipation in the North

    Labels: L ger-F, Northern province

  7. France abolishes slavery across all colonies

    Labels: French National, Abolition decree

  8. Toussaint Louverture shifts to France after abolition

    Labels: Toussaint Louverture, French Republic

  9. War of the South ends, Louverture controls colony

    Labels: War of, Toussaint Louverture

  10. Louverture promulgates the 1801 Constitution

    Labels: 1801 Constitution, Louverture administration

  11. Leclerc expedition lands to restore French control

    Labels: Charles Leclerc, French expedition

  12. Napoleon’s 1802 slavery policy fuels renewed war

    Labels: Napoleon policy, Slavery restoration

  14. Battle of Vertières ends hopes of colonial restoration

    Labels: Battle of, Haitian victory

  15. Haiti declares independence, closing the Saint-Domingue era

    Labels: Haiti independence, Jean-Jacques Dessalines