A single governor’s recruiting from Anjou grew Saint-Domingue’s European population tenfold

Evidence

The French named a royal governor to oversee Tortuga and the coast of Saint-Domingue in 1664, and he personally recruited settlers for the colony from his native region of Anjou. A population of 400 Europeans there when he first arrived grew to 4,000 by 1680. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 69

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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