Saint-Domingue

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1. historicalA former French colony on the island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1809, roughly equivalent to modern-day Haiti.

   Slavery was rarely pleasant, but the conditions on St. Domingue were notoriously bad.

   2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 14

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   In a mere twelve years, for example, between 1779 and 1790, the slave ships that plied the coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Mozambique unloaded close to four hundred thousand slaves in Saint Domingue.

   1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 40

   The future general was born in 1762 in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue, in the western half of the island.

   2012, Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’, Literary Review, page 402

   Synonyms: pearl of the Antilles