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How Did Enslaved People in Saint-Domingue Defeat Three European Emppires? - The End of Slavery in the French Caribbean | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the late eighteenth century, the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue produced roughly forty percent of Europe's sugar and sixty percent of its coffee. It was the most profitable colonial possession on earth, generating vast wealth for France. Yet this economic machine was sustained by a system of chattel slavery so brutal and lethal that the enslaved population could not naturally reproduce itself, requiring a constant influx of captive Africans to replace the dead. This episode…
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