Succès et déclin du commerce colonial français, de la Révolution à la Restauration

The Haitian Revolution, History's New Frontier: State of the Scholarship and Archival Sources

“…Though every book on the Haitian Revolution makes an obligatory reference to the centrality of Saint-Domingue in the Atlantic economy of the 1780s, very few have taken the time to explore the long-distance trading networks that linked French ports to Saint-Domingue in the pre-revolutionary era, then the collapse of French maritime commerce during the Revolution. 53 The simultaneous growth of US exports to Saint-Domingue is better known to US scholars, but questions remain, for example on the extent of US merchants' support for Haitian rebels during the war of independence. 54 Many scholars also take for granted that Haiti was cut off from international commerce after independence, when in fact there was only a brief and ineffectual US embargo in 1805-1809.…”