Saint-Domingue

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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1. What is the location?Western portion of Hispaniola island, Caribbean
2. What is the french colonial period?1659-1803
3. What was Saint-Domingue and where was it located?Saint-Domingue was a French colony on the western part of the island Hispaniola, which is now Haiti. It existed from 1659 to 1803.
4. Why was Saint-Domingue so rich for France?It produced a lot of sugar, making it France's most profitable colony. The wealth came from the forced labor of enslaved Africans on the plantations.

Treaty of Ryswick: A 1697 treaty that formally recognized French control over western Hispaniola and Tortuga.
Vodou: A syncretic religion developed in Haiti, blending West African spiritual traditions with Catholicism, central to the Bois Caïman ceremony.
Haitian Revolution: The successful slave revolt that led to Haiti's independence from France, a transformative event in world history.