By 1790 Haiti surpassed all British North America in production.

Evidence

By 1790, Haiti was perhaps the most productive colony the modern world had known. Its sugar, coffee, indigo, and tobacco production was said to be greater than the total for British North America. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 725

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to Robinson’s argument that the wealth of Western capitalism rested on colonial slavery — a recurring theme from earlier chapters.

Related

• Saint-Domingue was the most productive colony the modern world had known (similarity 0.90)
• Haiti’s slave armies defeated the era’s most sophisticated militaries by 1804. (similarity 0.82)
• Haiti’s fall as sugar producer was filled by Cuba’s slave-driven plantations (similarity 0.81)
• Haitian Revolution crippled rivals and raised world sugar prices (similarity 0.80)
• Slave armies defeated the era’s most sophisticated militaries to end slavery in Haiti (similarity 0.79)
• Spanish colonialism reduced western Hispaniola to economic stagnation before France took it (similarity 0.79)
• Saint-Domingue deliberately worked slaves to death because importation cost less than breeding (similarity 0.79)
• The Haitian Revolution was the hemisphere’s largest slave rebellion and devastated Napoleon’s finances. (similarity 0.78)
• Cuba replaced Saint-Domingue as the Atlantic’s leading sugar supplier with massive slave imports (similarity 0.78)
• Older British sugar colonies declined as newer ones replaced them (similarity 0.78)
• Haiti’s successful slave revolt deviated its history from plantation-society logic (similarity 0.78)
• Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth (similarity 0.78)
• The African-born majority of Haitian slaves shaped the coming revolution (similarity 0.78)
• Post-slavery capitalism extended domination to tropical labor. (similarity 0.78)
• Sugar topped the eighteenth-century westward trade ahead of slaves (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Cuba’s sugar boom replaced Haiti using massive new slave imports #complicates (0.50)