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On 20 June 1631, Barbary corsairs landed at Baltimore, County Cork, and took 107 sleeping villagers into slavery. The English king was busy negotiating a trade deal with Morocco. The captives spent the rest of their lives in North Africa.
On 14 March 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin — a crude wooden machine he hoped would reduce slavery. It did the opposite.
On 9 February 1822, Jean-Pierre Boyer rode into Santo Domingo with 12,000 soldiers and unified the entire island of Hispaniola under a single Black republic. The occupation lasted 22 years, abolished slavery, closed the oldest university in the Americas, and planted the resentments that would define Dominican identity ever after.
On 4th February 1794, the French National Convention abolished slavery throughout all territories of the First Republic — a revolutionary act that would shape colonial policy for generations.