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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.
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — The World of 1775 in The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848.
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