Saint-Domingue’s population was decimated across successive waves of settlers and slaves.

Evidence

The decline was undoubtedly of disastrous proportions. Even accepting conservative estimates, the pre-Columbian population of Hispaniola must have fallen from about one hundred thousand to only a few hundred in 1570. To make up for the lack of natives, Negro slaves and Indians from the Bahamas were introduced at an early date. That measure alone proves that depopulation there was worse than on the mainland. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1899 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An estimated 685,000 slaves were brought to Saint-Domingue in the eighteenth century; Hispaniola’s native population collapsed from 100,000 to a few hundred by 1570. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1899; Slave imports to Saint-Domingue peaked at nearly 48,000 in 1790

Related

• Hispaniola’s native population collapsed from 100,000 to a few hundred by 1570. (similarity 0.89)
• Hispaniola’s native population collapsed within decades of Spanish conquest (similarity 0.84)
• Spanish colonization reduced Hispaniola’s native population from 300,000 to under 500 in two decades (similarity 0.82)
• San Domingo’s slave population exploded from pirates to a majority in a century (similarity 0.82)
• Saint-Domingue absorbed roughly ten percent of the entire Atlantic slave trade. (similarity 0.81)
• Saint-Domingue deliberately worked slaves to death because importation cost less than breeding (similarity 0.81)
• An estimated 685,000 slaves were brought to Saint-Domingue in the eighteenth century (similarity 0.81)
• Slave imports to Saint-Domingue peaked at nearly 48,000 in 1790 (similarity 0.80)
• Saint-Domingue’s workforce became violently racialized within a century (similarity 0.80)
• Most Saint-Domingue slaves were African-born by the late eighteenth century (similarity 0.80)
• Slaves outnumbered whites nearly fifteen to one in Saint-Domingue by 1789. (similarity 0.79)
• Saint-Domingue’s slave population vastly outnumbered whites on the eve of revolution (similarity 0.79)
• Jamaica’s slave and white populations both shrank while freedmen grew. (similarity 0.79)
• Pirates and cattle hunters seeded the French slave colony of Saint-Domingue (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• An estimated 685,000 slaves were brought to Saint-Domingue in the eighteenth century #corroborates (0.80)
• Hispaniola’s native population collapsed from 100,000 to a few hundred by 1570. #exemplifies (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1899
• Slave imports to Saint-Domingue peaked at nearly 48,000 in 1790 #corroborates (0.70)