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History of Haiti, Voodoo & its Timeline
The Arawak
Indians first inhabited Haiti
The Caribs and the Arawaks were tropical forest people who
probably originated in South America and were related the
people found anywhere from Panama to Brazil. Not discovered by Europeans until 1492 when Christopher
Columbus first landed in the New World
The Arawaks were progressively wiped out by the
after-effects of the Spanish conquest
1650 - 1800's the use of imported African slave labor
1697 Spain ceded the western third of the Hispaniola - which
was then called Saint-Domingue - to France |