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Hidden Histories
A revolution that rocks the Western world
Weekly Program
Jack R. Johnson
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Jan. 16, 2010, 8:53 a.m.
According to Historian, Richard Hooker, In 1791, the French plantations on the island of Hispaniola offered some of the most cruel conditions that African-American slaves had ever suffered.

They differ from North American plantations in one key element: the coffee and sugar plantations require vast amounts of labor. As a result, the slave population outnumbered the French colonialists by what must have seemed a terrifying number; the slaves, also, by their sheer numbers were allowed to retain much of their culture and to establish more or less independent social systems.
This program airs live every Wed / Fri at 10:00 AM Eastern US time on www.wrir.org, WRIR 97.3 FM in Richmond, VA

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