“Saint-Domingue wasn’t just any French colony. Dubbed the 'pearl of the Antilles', it was the richest French possession in the Caribbean... It was also France’s cruelest colony, where the French forci…”
“Even people the French sent to study the population came back remarking on the extraordinarily high death rate, saying that a captive African wouldn't live beyond two or three years, and that an Afri…”
