Regional geography within Saint-Domingue shaped the revolution’s course.

Evidence

“Geography,” writes one historian, was in Saint-Domingue “the mother of history.” Each region had its own landscape, customs, and demography, and these would shape the revolution to come. … It was part of an evolving Atlantic world, one in which many of the subjects of empires gradually came to dream of one day being citizens of their own nations. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 109

Categorization

• QUESTION: Dubois promises regional geography shapes the revolution — worth holding onto to see exactly how southern, northern, and western regionalism play into the revolt’s different phases.