Soulouque and His Empire

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Excerpt from Soulouque and His Empire: From the French of Gustave D'alauxHayti has been, now, under negro domination for seventy years. Previous to this, the ag1icul tural and commercial prosperity of the Island had reached a high degree of development. The pepu lation of French Hayti exceeded a half million in 1791 and its annual exports to France alone were more than five millions sterling. It could not have been otherwise, when we consider its favored material resources. Situated under the tropics possessing a climate and soil eminently fitted to grow sugar, cotton, and indigo its mountains rich in gold, copper and coal its rivers, bordered with forests of mahogany, cedar, and dye-woods, and its position on the track of the Great West Indian trade, making it the entrepot for the ships of all nations, are elements of wealth possessed by few countries.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.