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Saint-Domingue — French Caribbean colony, the future Haiti
The world’s richest colony in the eighteenth century, sugar and slavery; the 1791 insurrection there begat the first Black republic, Haiti, independent in 1804. (Editorial synthesis)
Recorded person born in Saint-Domingue: Toussaint Louverture.
Recorded person who died in Saint-Domingue: Charles Leclerc.
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