Scale: circa 1:14,000 (bar). Manuscript chart of south coast of Haiti with soundings. Nine sheets joined. 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. This is one of a number of French maps which came into his possession.