. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 3,.100 Miles. Indian islands ; and the flourishing state of the indigo and sugar trades during the eighteenth century enabled the planters to procure the very best " raw material " in the slave market. But probably to this very circumstance was due the defeat and massacre of the white proprietors. The blacks imported as slaves gradually merged in a vigorous race ripe for independence. The Haitian negroes are still noted for their size, strength, and muscular development. At the dawn of the revolution those of the French colony numbered half a mill
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 3,.100 Miles. Indian islands ; and the flourishing state of the indigo and sugar trades during the eighteenth century enabled the planters to procure the very best " raw material " in the slave market. But probably to this very circumstance was due the defeat and massacre of the white proprietors. The blacks imported as slaves gradually merged in a vigorous race ripe for independence. The Haitian negroes are still noted for their size, strength, and muscular development. At the dawn of the revolution those of the French colony numbered half a million, owned by Tather more than 30,000 whites, while the intermediate class of mulattos, nearly all freedmen, scarcely exceeded 27,000. In the Spanish part of the island the whole population was much less, and the two elements far more evenly balanced. Here the plantations numbered only about 5,500, not half as many as in the French part, which supplied Europe with more than half of its annual con- sumption of cotton and sugar.
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