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jan 1, 1700 - French: Saint-Domingue becomes richest sugar plantation

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Saint-Domingue, or Haiti today, became the richest sugar plantation in the Carribean. The primary population of the island of Hispanola, the other half of which is the modern-day Dominican Republic, was African slaves, as well as indentured Spanish.

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jan 1, 1700
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~ 326 years ago