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Home > Haiti History > Haiti The Conflicts Of Color And Class Haiti The Conflicts Of Color And Class By the mid-eighteenth century, a territory largely neglected under Spanish rule had become the richest and most coveted colony in the Western Hemisphere.
By the eve of the French Revolution, Saint-Domingue produced about 60 percent of the world's coffee and about 40 percent of the sugar imported by France and Britain.
Saint-Domingue played a pivotal role in the French economy, accounting for almost two-thirds of French commercial interests abroad and about 40 percent of foreign trade.
The system that provided such largess to the mother country, such luxury to planters, and so many jobs in France had a fatal flaw, however.
That flaw was slavery.
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