Scale: circa 1:900,000 (bar). Chart partially coloured. Manuscript additions in red ink and notes relating to the insurrection added in contemporary manuscript. Linen backed and mounted on wooden rollers. A series of revolutionary uprisings in Saint Domigue (Haiti) between 1791 and 1804 led to Haiti achieving independence on 1st January 1804, and becoming the first country permanently to ban slavery. In 1793, Britain controlled neighbouring plantation colonies which were reliant on the labour of enslaved people and saw the uprisings as an opportunity for seizing control of one of France's most lucrative colonies. The British withdrew in 1798, having been been defeated by the revolutionary army of formerly enslaved people led by Toussaint Louverture. Duckworth took part in the campaign in 1795 and commanded the fleet in 1796.