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Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas

Captive Passage
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Le Port au Prince L'Isle de St. Domingue, Vu du Mouillage, 1780
Saint Dominique (modern-day Haiti) was home to by far the largest slave population in the Antilles. Most slaves worked on medium-sized plantations, cultivating sugar, coffee, and indigo. Slaves in the French Caribbean usually received small plots of second-rate plantation land. On it they grew crops for their own consumption; they were allowed to sell whatever was left over.
Jeanne Ozanne after Nicholas Ozanne
The Mariners' Museum

Cutting Sugar Cane

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