http://www.radio4all.net/program/38842Podcast for Program: Haiti History - Part 2, Revolution / LiberationSat, 16 Jan 2010 08:53:33 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/38842According 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. Hidden HistoriesSat, 16 Jan 2010 08:53:33 +0000