The French started cultivating indigo in ____ in the Caribbean islands.

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The French started cultivating indigo in St. Domingue in the Caribbean islands.
Another source made blue and violet dyes for European manufacturers. They depended on a plant called woad because its price was not as high as indigo. It can grow in temperate climates. The woad producers pressured the European government to ban the import of indigo because they were worried about the competition with indigo. Still, numerous dyers wanted indigo as a dye because it produced a rich blue colour, and the colour produced by woad was not that good and looked pale and dull. Later, the cloth producers persuaded the European government to relax the ban on indigo imports in the seventeenth century. The French started cultivating indigo in St Domingue in the Caribbean islands; not only the French but the Portuguese in Brazil, the Spanish in Venezuela, and the English in Jamaica also started Indigo cultivation.

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