The January 12‚ 2010 Haiti Earthquake caused an enormous destruction in the Caribbean nation. Hospitals and government buildings collapsed along with an unbelievable amount of homes. Tens of thousands of people were killed‚ and many more were wounded. The disaster added more misery to people already struggling to get by with everyday life. Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the world. The January 12 quake demolished almost every major building in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti’s capital. About 5‚000 schools
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The English took Jamaica from the Spanish and made it the premier site of Caribbean sugar by the 1740s. When the French seized half of Santo Domingo in the 1660s‚ they created one of the wealthiest societies based on slavery of all time. This French colony’s exports eclipsed those of all Spanish and English Antilles combined. The capital‚ Port-au-Prince‚ was one of the richest cities in the
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The Fire of Jubilee Santo Domingo. In 1799 two white guards were killed while transporting slaves through Nat’s hometown‚ Southampton County. The first attempted large scale insurrection on American soil was the Gabriel Prosser conspiracy in Richmond in 1800. Gabriel and his accomplices planned to burn Richmond‚ and take the governor hostage. His plans were spoiled before he had an opportunity to carry them out‚ but the event contributed dramatically to the uneasiness of many Southerners. Nat toiled
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Some of the riches of the Caribbean depended on Europeans’ taste for sugar‚ which plantation owners traded for provisions from North America and manufactured goods from European countries. The island also had extensive coffee‚ cocoa‚ indigo‚ and cotton plantations‚ but these were smaller and less profitable than the wealthy sugar plantations. 1758‚ the white landowners began passing legislation restricting the rights of other groups of people until a rigid caste system was defined. Most historians
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In Exchanging Our Country Marks‚ Michael Gomez brings together various strands of the historical record in a stunning fusion that points the way to a definitive history of American Slavery. In this fusion of history‚ anthropology‚ and sociology‚ Gomez has made expert use of primary sources‚ including newspapers ads for runaway slaves in colonial America. Slave runaway accounts from newspapers are combined with personal diaries‚ church records‚ and former slave narratives to provide a firsthand account
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Name: Kerwens Charles Period: 4 Haiti‚ known as Saint-Domingue before the revolution‚ it was the richest colony in the Americas in 1789. Almost half a million slaves toiled on its sugar‚ coffee‚ indigo‚ and cotton plantations. More than thirty thousand new African slaves arrived each year‚ both to replace the many that died of overwork or disease and also to fuel the rapid economic expansion that the colony experienced in the 1780s
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Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo INTEC “Creatividad e Innovación. Unidad 1. Parte I” Creatividad e Innovación Mabel Artidiello Sección 01 GC-204 Estudiante: Luigina Pastrano 08-0460 Santo Domingo‚ Agosto de 2010 Unidad 1. Creatividad e Innovación Parte I a) La creatividad en su génesis epistemológica La creatividad ha existido desde siempre‚ es una habilidad del ser humano y‚ por lo tanto‚ vinculada a su propia naturaleza. Sin embargo‚ por mucho tiempo‚ la creatividad
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U.N. WORRIES TROOPS CAUSED HAITI’S CHOLERA The latest disaster to hit Haiti‚ has been the cholera outbreak. The attached article addresses concerns from the United Nations‚ regarding mounting circumstantial evidences linking the outbreak to the U.N. Peacekeepers from Nepal. The Nepalese base housing 454 U.N. peace keepers located on a waterway called Boukan Kanni‚ which is a part of the Meile River. This river drains off into the Artibonite River. Haitians living in this rural area complained
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“That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ‚ is the strangest system of religion ever set up.” -Thomas Paine Views on Education citizens must be educated to vote not out of ignorance applied only to males bc those = prospective voters not all states created working system of schools‚ 1815=no states had edu system 1789 MA law said each town must have school that served both males and females‚ but no enforcement VA ignored Jefferson’s
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