For the Grand Blancs, the Haitian Revolution was a complete and total disaster, they went from being in control of the island, to being driven off of it. Before the revolution, the Grand Blancs were on top of the pyramid of power. They were the wealthy white citizens, most of whom owned successful sugar plantations, capitalising on the import of slaves as cheap labour. In addition they, despite there being considerably more Des Esclaves, Gens de Colour, and Petit Blancs, held the power in the colony of Saint Domingue. All of that began to change, when, to oversimplify it, the combination of the Grand Blancs wanting to get rid of their trade agreement with France, the Petit Blancs wanting to get as rich and powerful as the Grand Blancs,
