and we all think about bordeaux and bordeaux wine. bordeaux was exporting wine all over europe during the 18th century. it was making a lot of money on that, but it also had very, very ties with france's colonies. and we don't think too much about the french caribbean, except who were taking cruises. but france had some major overseas colonies. the 18th century in guadeloupe what we call saint kitts now, or saint christopher martinique. martinique was the most important island for a long time. and then saint-domingue, which is haiti and bordeaux, was not involved in the slave trade on the same level, say not, but it was certainly involved with the slave trade. it was making much money though, from wine, other forms of trade. it didn't really get involved in, the slave trade until now on a large scale, until later in the century so again, in terms of the slave trade bordeaux certainly much important figure toward the end of the century, it was deporting three or 4000 africans to caribbean. at the end of was the 1789 1790, early on it w