Saint-Domingue was a graveyard for indigenous, European, and enslaved populations alike

Evidence

The colony was a graveyard for its original inhabitants, decimated by Spanish colonizers; for its European settlers and soldiers, who succumbed in large numbers to fevers; and of course for the many slaves who died there from execution, overwork, sorrow, or (though rarely) the weight of years. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 50

Categorization

• XREF: The death-drenched framing of the colony feeds the reader’s interest in decorum toward corpses and the role of burial practices.