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Saint-Domingue became known as the "Pearl of the Antilles" – one of the richest colonies in the world in the 18th-century French empire. It was the greatest jewel in imperial France's mercantile crown. By the 1780s, Saint-Domingue produced about 40 percent of all the sugar and 60 percent of all the coffee consumed in Europe.
So please would someone add to the top a simple guide to the correct pronunciation of the name "Saint-Domingue" ? Thanks. Darkman101 01:32, 4 March 2011 (UTC) It is true that Saint-Domingue "could be" pronounced "San Domingyou," but that would be an incorrect pronunciation. Sort of like mispronouncing the word "burlesque" as "burley-cue."
It served as the capital of the French colony of Saint-Domingue from the city's formal founding in 1711 until 1770, when the capital was moved to Port-au-Prince on the west coast of the island. Two thirds of the 15,000 inhabitants in 1790 were enslaved peoples, the remaining one third made up of colonists (24%) and free people of colour (10% ...
Later, under French colonial rule, the Caribbean island was known as Saint-Domingue (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.dɔ.mɛ̃ɡ]) and was a French colony from 1659 to 1804. [7] Early on, enslaved people on the island began resisting captivity and fighting to restore their freedom.
Saint-Domingue was home to the Cercle des Philadelphes, a scientific organization of which the American scientist Benjamin Franklin was a member. [12] Saint-Domingue developed a highly specialized and differentiated economy, and art and entertainment were abundant on the island.
Castelline, a speaker of Haitian Creole, recorded in the United States. Haitian Creole (/ ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l /; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; [6] [7] French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl a.i.sjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official ...
Petit-Goâve became a wealthy settlement and briefly functioned as a de facto capital of the prosperous colony of Saint-Domingue. It is also very famous for its sweet candy called dous makòs . January 2010 earthquake
Secretly, Napoleon planned to reinstate slavery in Saint-Domingue once Louverture had been detained by French troops. [5] Leclerc left Brest, France in December 1801 at the head of a French Navy fleet transporting 40,000 troops, publicly repeating Bonaparte's promise that "all of the people of Saint-Domingue are French" and would remain forever ...