USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Prior to its independence, Haiti was a French colony known as St. Domingue. St. Domingue’s slave-based sugar and coffee industries had been fast-growing and successful, and by the 1760s it had become the most profitable colony in the Americas.

Detailed explanation-2: -Prior to gaining its independence in 1804, Haiti was the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Under French rule, Saint-Domingue grew to be the wealthiest colony in the French empire and, perhaps, the richest colony in the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -Through the struggle, the Haitian people ultimately won independence from France and thereby became the first country to be founded by former slaves.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s colonial forces, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaims the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name. In 1791, a revolt erupted on the French colony, and Toussaint Louverture, a formerly enslaved man, took control of the rebels.

Detailed explanation-5: -While the Spanish initially claimed ownership over the entire island, they mainly constructed settlements on the eastern side. The western portion of Hispaniola was left largely empty until the 17th century, when the French chose to settle there.