6 Jan 1791 Jahr - French Revolution spurred revolution in other parts of the world including in their colony Saint Domingue (Haiti).

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- Saint Domingue was the most valuable colony among France’s overseas possessions. Slave-based plantations produced sugar, cotton, indigo, and coffee.

Like France on the verge of the Revolution, Saint Domingue’s population was also deeply divided.
- A small population of white plantation owners controlled the economy and government.
- A slightly larger free mixed-race population called the gens de couleur constituted a middle class, most of which was of modest means.
- The majority of the population was made up of African slaves.

With the onset of the Revolution in France, the gens de couleur began to demand political equality.

Unrest between the white population and the gens de couleur created an opportunity for the slaves to rise in rebellion

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