Most Saint-Domingue slaves were African-born by the late eighteenth century

Evidence

As a result, by the late eighteenth century the majority of the slaves in Saint-Domingue were African-born. They came from homelands throughout the continent. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 149

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Saint-Domingue’s slaves were mostly African, making the revolution partly an African revolution (similarity 0.91)
• Saint-Domingue’s workforce became violently racialized within a century (similarity 0.89)
• The Haitian Revolution was itself largely an African revolution (similarity 0.88)
• West-central Africa supplied 40 percent of Saint-Domingue’s eighteenth-century slave imports (similarity 0.87)
• An estimated 685,000 slaves were brought to Saint-Domingue in the eighteenth century (similarity 0.87)
• The African-born majority of Haitian slaves shaped the coming revolution (similarity 0.86)
• A majority of Haiti’s revolutionaries were African-born slaves. (similarity 0.85)
• Kongo captives were the largest slave group imported to Saint-Domingue. (similarity 0.85)
• Saint-Domingue absorbed roughly ten percent of the entire Atlantic slave trade. (similarity 0.85)
• More than half of the colony’s population was Africa-born on revolution’s eve (similarity 0.85)
• Cuba replaced Saint-Domingue as the Atlantic’s leading sugar supplier with massive slave imports (similarity 0.84)
• Haiti’s fall as sugar producer was filled by Cuba’s slave-driven plantations (similarity 0.84)
• Saint-Domingue deliberately worked slaves to death because importation cost less than breeding (similarity 0.84)
• Plantations mixed slaves from a bewildering array of African nations. (similarity 0.83)
• Contemporary slaves understood Haiti’s revolution better than later historians would. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Eighteenth-century slave revolts were led mainly by African-born slaves #corroborates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 704
• A majority of Haiti’s revolutionaries were African-born slaves. #corroborates (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 728