French Plantation in Saint-Domingue c.1700

[Patrice]

First attempts for a French plantation in Saint Domingue (Hispaniola) c.1700, according to historical sources, for a pirate game this week-end.
Still many details and shades to add...
(Aaargh as usual I can never finish things properly).





Barn for drying tobacco :

[shandy]

Nice! I'm looking forward to seeing more - this will be great inspiration for my Haitian Revolution games...

[Patrice]

This was finished for the game (although still lacking many details...):

Left to right: slaves huts, tobacco shed, master's house, outdoor kitchen, tobacco field, sugarcane mill, indigo basins with well sweep.





(I had made the mill and the basins long ago but the basins looked ridiculous without the hill I made for them last week).

[gamer Mac]

Interesting project
Where are you getting the inspiration from?

[von Lucky]

Keep at it - it's a good start.

[Patrice]

Nice! I'm looking forward to seeing more - this will be great inspiration for my Haitian Revolution games...

You may want later references for the 1790s. According to historical sources, c.1700 designs were still crude and practical; it seems that most French planters houses did not add a gallery (of Spanish design) before the 1730's, and they became richer in the late 18th century.

Interesting project
Where are you getting the inspiration from?

 
In French, with some interesting pictures (...but you could probably find some equivalents in English about former British colonies?)

— Modern studies, historians and/or archeologists:
« Maisons de maître et habitations coloniales dans les anciens territoires français de l’Amérique tropicale » (revue In Situ)
http://insitu.revues.org/2362
« La société d'habitation : une civilisation historique » ("créole" culture course for teachers)
http://kapeskreyol.potomitan.info/dissertation2.php
http://kapeskreyol.potomitan.info/dissertation3.php
« La   production   d’indigo   en   Guadeloupe   au   XVIIème   et
XVIIIème siècle »
http://medieval-europe-paris-2007.univ-paris1.fr/T.Yvon.pdf
« Les indigoteries de Marie-Galante »
http://www.journals4free.com/link.jsp?l=36445781
modern pictures,
https://lamaisondelindigo.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/indigoterie-a-marie-galante1-trace-de-lest/
etc...

— Books and drawings of the time, etc...

Keep at it - it's a good start.

Thanks - but if you know me, it's probably no more than a start...
I play on very large tables so I can rarely improve things (although I would like to) because there are so many other things to do... and to store, and to carry...
Pictures of the game table last week-end, 1.80m x 4 m, the plantation is at the far end (I'll post an AAR later):