The Southern Province traded more with British Jamaica than with France
Evidence
The Southern Province was the last to be fully settled by the French, and remained the most isolated from Atlantic shipping and from the rest of the colony. It was in many ways more connected to the nearby British colony of Jamaica than it was to France, and something of an “English enclave.” The inhabitants of the region traded consistently and illegally with the British, as well as with ships from Spanish Cuba, Curaçao, and other areas. Contraband trade was carried on throughout the colony, but it was particularly developed in the south. Huge quantities of indigo were traded to the British, although in official statistics they made up only a tiny portion of the exports of Saint-Domingue. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 108
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to the wider Atlantic context; Julien Raimond’s emergence here pays off later in the revolution.
Related
- Saint-Domingue generated more trade than all of Britain’s colonies combined (similarity 0.80)
- Saint-Domingue absorbed roughly ten percent of the entire Atlantic slave trade. (similarity 0.79)
- Saint-Domingue’s prosperity flowed from defying metropolitan trade regulation (similarity 0.78)
- Saint-Domingue’s trade alone exceeded all of Britain’s colonial trade (similarity 0.78)