1681
1681: Saint-Domingue’s population is 6,648, consisting of 65% white residents and 31% enslaved people.
1681: Saint-Domingue’s population is 6,648, consisting of 65% white residents and 31% enslaved people. These early figures show a society where white settlers still outnumbered the enslaved workforce before the sugar boom.
Source · p. 60
Ghachem, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, 60