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Slavery in the Caribbean

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Slavery in the Caribbean began in the late 1600s as labor for sugar plantations. By the mid-1700s, islands in the Caribbean became the largest importers of slaves in the region.

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the system is where a piece of land was given to a Spaniard and this land was to be worked by the amerindians

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