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1840

1840: Cuba officially surpassed the former French colony of Saint Domingue as the world’s leading producer of sugar.

1840: Cuba officially surpassed the former French colony of Saint Domingue as the world’s leading producer of sugar. This economic shift occurred as Cuban planters capitalized on the collapse of the Haitian plantation system during and after the revolution.

Source  ·  p. 85 Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World, 85