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Cap-Haïtien, Haiti’s Capital, once under French Occupation

Cap-Haïtien, Haiti’s Capital, once under French Occupation

In Haiti's Nord Department lies Cap-Haïtien, with a population numbering 190,000.

Columbus first colonized the island in the 1600s. He was followed by the French in the 1800s. They built sugarcane plantations, bringing in thousands of African slaves for manual labor.

Cap-Haïtien has been a hot-bed of insurrectionary fervor: anti-Aristide revolutionaries influenced the opposition to run him off the island in 2004.

Cap-Haïtien buildings are French colonial architecture, containing balconies, lending a social ambience to communities residing there.

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