Haiti’s fall as sugar producer was filled by Cuba’s slave-driven plantations

Evidence

In the nineteenth century sugar plantations sprang up throughout Cuba, sometimes staffed by exiles from Saint-Domingue, and worked by African slaves. The latter were imported into the colony in massive numbers: between 1790 and 1867 nearly as many were introduced to Cuba as had been imported to Saint-Domingue in the entire eighteenth century. The precedent of the Haitian Revolution, however, made some worry about the danger of importing African slaves: one Puerto Rican writer wondered whether they would “come to form a multitude” that might become an “exterminating thunderbolt.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1070