In 1697, Haiti became the French colony of Saint-Dominique, which became a leading sugarcane producer dependent on slaves. In 1791, an insurrection erupted among the slave population of 480,000,...
Lower claw, about 25 miles WSW of Port-au-Prince was the epicenter, but most of the deaths were in Port-au-Prince itself, a densely populated capital city of 2 million.