SaintDomingue | French colony, West Indies |
Other articles where SaintDomingue is discussed: Haiti: Plantations and slaves: to France, which renamed it SaintDomingue. The colony''s population and economic output grew rapidly during the 18th century, and it became France''s most prosperous New World possession, exporting sugar and smaller amounts of coffee, cacao, indigo, and cotton. By the 1780s nearly twothirds of France''s