How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents | Historical Context
The Dominican Republic and Trujillo's Regime
The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean nation that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island Hispaniola, located between the islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico. Christopher Columbus landed on the island in 1492, and Hispaniola was the site of the first Spanish settlement in the New World. The western part of the island was settled by the French, and the entire island was conquered by 1795. The French imported large numbers of African slaves to work the sugar plantations, until a rebellion led to independence for the island, now...
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