I just finished to read a recent article on Guyana. The economical and social structure was very different from the other french West Indies, with a more precarious system of small (european-held) plantations, not focused on sugarcane because of a lack of capital and investment, always on the verge of collapsing both economically and demographically (negative net demographic growth). While the slave system was as hard as Saint-Domingue's, the two colonies were very different. The near total absence of a class of "free men of colour" in Guyana, for example, allows us to think a Haiti-like Revolution cannot occur. Especially as the Portuguese had always an eye on Guyana and are ready to take over the colony if the French power collapsed.