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Pre-1789

Pre-1789: The population of enslaved Africans in the French part of St. Domingo grew to be sixteen times larger than the white population.

Pre-1789: The population of enslaved Africans in the French part of St. Domingo grew to be sixteen times larger than the white population. This extreme demographic imbalance gave the leaders of the later rebellion greater confidence in their eventual success.

Source  ·  p. xxii Edwards, Historical Survey, xxii