French colonial Saint-Domingue

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/French_colonial_Saint-Domingue
GPTKB entity
Statements (51)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf former French colony
gptkbp:capital gptkb:Cap-Français
gptkbp:colonizedBy gptkb:France
gptkbp:currency gptkb:book
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:Haiti
gptkbp:disbanded 1804
gptkbp:established 1659
gptkbp:ethnicGroup enslaved Africans
gptkbp:governedBy French colonial administration
gptkbp:governor gptkb:Jean-Baptiste_Donatien_de_Vimeur,_comte_de_Rochambeau
gptkb:Étienne_Maynaud_de_Bizefranc_de_Laveaux
gptkb:Philippe_François_Rouxel_de_Blanchelande
gptkbp:homeport gptkb:Cap-Français
gptkb:Saint-Marc
gptkb:Gonaïves
gptkb:Les_Cayes
gptkb:Port-au-Prince
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label French colonial Saint-Domingue
gptkbp:imported gptkb:West_Africa
gptkbp:knownFor wealthiest colony in the Caribbean (18th century)
brutal slave system
inspiration for abolitionist movements
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:Caribbean
gptkbp:locatedOn gptkb:island_of_Hispaniola
gptkbp:mainExports gptkb:café
gptkb:sugar
indigo
cotton
cacao
gptkbp:mainLanguage gptkb:French
gptkbp:minorityIn free people of color
white colonists
gptkbp:notableCase gptkb:Code_Noir
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Haitian_Revolution
gptkb:Declaration_of_Independence_(1804)
slave uprisings
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:André_Rigaud
gptkb:Henri_Christophe
gptkb:Jean-Jacques_Dessalines
gptkb:Toussaint_Louverture
gptkb:Vincent_Ogé
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:French_West_Indies
gptkb:colonialism
gptkbp:population over 500,000 (by late 18th century)
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:French_Revolution
gptkb:Napoleonic_Wars
gptkb:Transatlantic_slave_trade
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Roman_Catholicism
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Haiti
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Haitian_Revolution
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6