Haiti (Saint-Domingue) as a European Colony
žBy the late 1700s, the French colony of Saint-Domingue had developed into the richest European colony in the western hemisphere.
žWith an extensive system of sugar and coffee plantations based on African slave labor
žSaint-Domingue
exported more wealth than
all of the British North
American colonies combined
žMolasses, a by-product of sugar processing, that was made into highly profitable rum.
