Haitian Revolution crippled rivals and raised world sugar prices

Evidence

At its base, the spurt in the Brazilian economy was a consequence of the market demand for sugar and cotton: “[T]he American Revolutionary Wars, the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and, not least, the bloody uprising in the Caribbean sugar island of St. Domingue had crippled many of Brazil’s economic rivals and raised world prices for tropical produce.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 753

Categorization

• XREF: Shows how the Haitian Revolution, though emancipatory, paradoxically fueled slave production elsewhere — connects to the reader’s interest in the tradition’s rise and contradictions.