From buccaneer coast to the richest colony on earth — 40% of Europe's sugar, half its coffee, half a million enslaved people.
Consumed by the revolution that began in August 1791.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Saint-Domingue (French) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1659 · 1697.
The foundational, still widely read history of colonial Saint-Domingue and the revolution that destroyed it.
The leading modern narrative synthesis of the colony and its revolution, accessible to general readers and grounded in current scholarship.
Directly analyzes Saint-Domingue's sugar-and-coffee plantation economy at its 18th-century height alongside British Jamaica.
Best study of colonial society, free people of color, and the social order of pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue.
A history of the enslaved majority and grassroots resistance that turned the colony into Haiti.