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So as of Taino started to die out, the, priest, the priest, let me say that again, the priest suggested, why don’t you go over to Africa and, get some enslaved people from there.
So, they decided, to start importing Africans to do the work that they wanted done.
Anyway, so, I was saying Spain wanted to reestablish their place in the European world was so important.
So, as I said, the priest said, let’s go over to Africa and get Africans, to enslave.
What was happening in Africa. There were wars between different nations and tribes.
Africans would sell the captives from the tribes that were, instead like, in Benin.
The women warrior would throw the, the warriors over a wall.
Going back to the Pirates, the people on the mainland started selling and trading with the pirates and things, uh, uh, things like bacon and some of the, the meat and livestock. That’s what they started, uh, trading with the pirates.
They started to plant tobacco and other crops, which was doing very well.
The French settled and formed a treaty. So things were going well. They were planning tobacco, they were growing tobacco.Tobacco was being shipped back to Europe and other places. So the French made a treaty with the Spanish.
They split the island, in two parts so there was a French side and the Spanish side. There was San Domingo was the Spanish side, and Santo Domingo was the French side.
The French, uh, were not intereste in mining. They were interested in their tobacco and they introduced another crop sugar. Because they were interested in sugar cane, they needed to bring more enslaved people.
Europe got most of the Africans from sub Sahara Africa to work on the sugar cane.
So even now we can see why, sometimes we wonder why our people, are prone, some of our people are prone to being part of gangs and what have you. That whole warring mentality, wanting to belong to something that has a purpose. Unfortunately, the purpose is not a good purpose.