Saint-Domingue’s workforce became violently racialized within a century

Evidence

The population of Saint-Domingue in the eighteenth century was not just majority slave; it was also majority African. These slaves had come from many different regions and political, social, and religious contexts, and they shaped the revolution with what they brought with them. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 30 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Most Saint-Domingue slaves were African-born by the late eighteenth century (similarity 0.89)
• Saint-Domingue’s slaves were mostly African, making the revolution partly an African revolution (similarity 0.87)
• Saint-Domingue’s slave population vastly outnumbered whites on the eve of revolution (similarity 0.86)
• An estimated 685,000 slaves were brought to Saint-Domingue in the eighteenth century (similarity 0.85)
• Saint-Domingue absorbed roughly ten percent of the entire Atlantic slave trade. (similarity 0.85)
• Caribbean plantation labor was deliberately and obsessively racialized (similarity 0.84)
• West-central Africa supplied 40 percent of Saint-Domingue’s eighteenth-century slave imports (similarity 0.83)
• Plantations mixed slaves from a bewildering array of African nations. (similarity 0.83)
• Saint-Domingue’s 1790 democratization extended to all whites but excluded free people of color. (similarity 0.82)
• Slaves outnumbered whites nearly fifteen to one in Saint-Domingue by 1789. (similarity 0.82)
• Racialized slavery replaced indentured labor by deliberate policy within decades (similarity 0.82)
• Saint-Domingue grew from frontier into the world’s most valuable colony within a century (similarity 0.82)
• Saint-Domingue’s population was decimated across successive waves of settlers and slaves. (similarity 0.82)
• Cuba replaced Saint-Domingue as the Atlantic’s leading sugar supplier with massive slave imports (similarity 0.81)
• Saint-Domingue’s racial hierarchy was internally contradictory and internally divided. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Saint-Domingue’s slave majority was also majority African in origin #qualifies (0.65) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 30
• In postemancipation Saint-Domingue planters were at the mercy of former slaves #complicates (0.45)