AHC - French Guiana experiences analogue of Haitian Revolution

In an ATL scenario where Spain (or less likely another power) manages to retain control over all of Hispaniola, the challenge is to have French Guiana end up being the location for an ATL analogue of the OTL Haitian Revolution though its outcome does not necessarily have to be the same.
 
In an ATL scenario where Spain (or less likely another power) manages to retain control over all of Hispaniola, the challenge is to have French Guiana end up being the location for an ATL analogue of the OTL Haitian Revolution though its outcome does not necessarily have to be the same.

Guyana and Saint Domingue were not on the same scale : there were in the 1780' 10,000 persons in Guyana (including 9,000 slaves), while Saint-Domingue was inhabitated by 455,000 persons, of which 405,000 were slaves. Even if there was a slave revolution (and OTL, many slaves left the plantations when Bonaparte reinstated slavery in 1802), it could not become as important as the Haitian Revolution, simply because of the sheer difference in numbers.
 
If the French managed to expand further in the Guianas include some (or all of) Amapa to the east as well as Suriname and Guyana to the west (if not parts of the Guayana region in Venezuela), would that have allowed this ATL French Guiana to feature an equivalent population or more compared to OTL Saint Domingue / Haiti?
 
If the French managed to expand further in the Guianas include some (or all of) Amapa to the east as well as Suriname and Guyana to the west (if not parts of the Guayana region in Venezuela), would that have allowed this ATL French Guiana to feature an equivalent population or more compared to OTL Saint Domingue / Haiti?

You would need a 4500% expansion of Guyana to have it equivalent to Saint Domingue and, given most of the colonization was only on shorelands, it would mean France taking a good deal of Spanish Venezuela and Portuguese Brazil, simply not possible at the time.
 
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.
 
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The idea would be that even if this ATL Guianan Revolution managed to succeed like the OTL Haitian Revolution, the Portuguese would be waiting in the wings to conquer the area regardless if French are defeated or managed at minimum to achieve a pyrrhic victory.
 
The idea would be that even if this ATL Guianan Revolution managed to succeed like the OTL Haitian Revolution, the Portuguese would be waiting in the wings to conquer the area regardless if French are defeated or managed at minimum to achieve a pyrrhic victory.

Exactly. The British were also not very keen to witness successful slave revolts.
 
It would be interesting though to have the French end up ruling most if not the entire Guiana region beforehand prior to the ATL Haitian Revolution analogue, only for the British or Dutch to prevent a complete conquest of the region by either the Portuguese or Spanish.
 
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