Bilateral Relations of the Dominican Republic - Dominican Republic - Haiti Relations, Haitian Occupation of Santo Domingo, Parsley Massacre (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Dominican Republic - Haiti Relations, Haitian Occupation of Santo Domingo, Parsley Massacre, Antihaitianismo, Dominican Republic - United States Relations, Republic of China - Dominican Republic Relations. Excerpt: Flag The Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo was Haiti's military invasion and ensuing twenty-two year occupation of the newly independent former Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, the present-day Dominican Republic, from February 9, 1822 until February 27, 1844. The occupation is recalled by Dominicans as a period of brutal military rule, though the reality is more complex. It led to large-scale land expropriations and failed efforts to force production of export crops, impose military services, restrict the use of the Spanish language, and eliminate traditional customs. It reinforced Dominicans' perceptions of themselves as different from Haitians in "language, race, religion and domestic customs." This period also definitively ended slavery as an institution in what became the Dominican Republic. By the late 18th century, the island of Hispaniola was divided into two European colonies: Saint-Domingue, in the west, governed by France; and Santo Domingo, governed by Spain, occupying the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola. In 1804, following black slave uprisings since 1791, the French colony declared its independence as Haiti. Independence did not come easily, given that Haiti had been France's most profitable colony, as a result of the sugar plantations worked by slaves; sugar had become an expensive commodity in Europe. Meanwhile, on the eastern side, composed mainly of Spanish descendants, mulattoes, freedmen, and some black slaves, the economy was stagnant, the land largely unexploited, and the population much smaller than ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17430583