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Cap-Français (1780s)
1780s — The richest port in the Americas. Saint-Domingue’s sugar and coffee — half a million enslaved people’s forced labor — paid for much of France’s Atlantic wealth. Remember what the wealth was.
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- Causes of the American Revolution (chapter 1 of Age of Revolutions)
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- The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
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