Saint-Domingue’s trade alone exceeded all of Britain’s colonial trade

Evidence

It received in its ports 1,587 ships, a greater number than Marseilles, and France used for the San Domingo trade alone 750 great vessels employing 24,000 sailors. In 1789 Britain’s export trade would be 27 million pounds, that of France 17 million pounds, of which the trade of San Domingo would account for nearly 11 million pounds. The whole of Britain’s colonial trade in that year amounted to only five million pounds. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 726

Categorization

• XREF: Data reinforcing that Atlantic slavery financed European capitalism — connects to the reader’s causal understanding of what the Black radical tradition confronted at its height.