Domingue, having fled the island in the wake of the slave uprising in 1791, to the declaration of Haiti's independence in 1804, and the subsequent attacks on the white population. How many of the emigres came with their enslaved people may never be known. Elsewhere, many of the whites, freed blacks, and mixed raced people who left Saint-Domingue for the United States settled in southern Louisiana. Enslaved Africans who came with their refugee owners became an issue of concern for some southern planters who feared enslaved people who had witnessed and perhaps taken part in the Haitian revolution could ignite similar revolts in the United States. ${ }^{24}$ Therefore, in Brazil, whose slave-based economy expanded dramatically to offset falling sugar supply from the Caribbean French immigrants fed Brazilian authorities with information on how to prevent revolts reminiscent of Saint-Domingue/Haiti. ${ }^{25}$ Indeed, it might not be farfetched to assume some of them had slave ancestries or had black relatives given the popularity of sexual interactions between French men in Brazil and SaintDomingue and their female black female enslaved people and employees.