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Haiti and Kenya independence · SITE OF MEMORY ·

Northern Plain sugar estates (1789)

On the Haiti and Kenya independence map as “The sugar estates of the northern plain”

1789 — Some of the richest sugar estates in the world, worked by enslaved Africans whose death rate exceeded their birth rate. The colony replaced them by buying tens of thousands more every year. Remember them.

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Type
Site of memory
Chapter
Slavery in colonial Saint-Domingue (chapter 1 of Haiti and Kenya independence)
Atlas
Two Roads to Independence: Haiti 1789–1838 and Kenya 1895–1978
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Map showing Northern Plain sugar estates (1789), site of memory in Two Roads to Independence: Haiti 1789–1838 and Kenya 1895–1978
SITE OF MEMORY · TWO ROADS TO INDEPENDENCE: HAITI 1789–1838 AND KENYA 1895–1978

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