Talk:Timeline of Events in Haitian Revolutionary History

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Re: 1644 "the Brazilian Jew Benjamin Dacosta introduced sugar cane from Java into the Antilles and brought about a great economic revolution." (Korngold, p. 11)

Other sources credit the early Spanish colonizers with having introduced sugarcane to the caribbean. -Doe 03:53, 8 July 2006 (PDT)