Established in 1662, Petit Goâve was a port on the south-west coast of Santo Domingo, now modern Haiti. It replaced Tortuga as a haven for buccaneers from the 1670s onwards and was particularly popular with French pirates, although frequented by those of other nationalities including the notorious Dutchman Laurens de Graff. By 1700, the buccaneers and privateers had been replaced by outright pirates. With the decline of piracy it became the capital of the French colony Saint-Domingue until it eventually became part of the Free Republic of Haiti in 1804, after a series of slave rebellions.