Saint-Domingue

English Pronunciation en /sɛn dɔ.mɪŋ/ Proper noun en now historical en A <<former>> French <<colony>> on the <<isl:pref/Hispaniola>> from 1659 to 1809, roughly equivalent to modern-day <<c/Haiti>>. en pearl of the Antilles en 1985 Wade Davis (anthropologist) Wade Davis The Serpent and the Rainbow 40 Simon & Schuster 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. en 2007 Kevin Filan The Haitian Vodou Handbook Destiny Books 14 Slavery was rarely pleasant, but the conditions on St. Domingue were notoriously bad. en 2012 w:Jonathan Keates; ‘Mon Père; ce héros’ Literary Review 402 The future general was born in 1762 in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue, in the western half of the island. Alternative forms en Saint Domingue St. Domingue St Domingue Related terms Dominguan, Saint-Dominguan (St. Dominguan), Dominguois, Saint-Dominguois, Saint Dominican en eponyms French Pronunciation fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Saint-Domingue.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>) fr LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-Saint-Domingue.wav <<France>> (<<Lyon>>) Proper noun m fr now historical fr a <<former>> French <<colony>> on the <<isl:pref/Hispaniola>>, roughly equivalent to modern-day <<c/Haiti>> Saint-Domingue fr perle des Antilles fr capital city c/Dominican Republic Santo Domingo fr exonyms