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Beside the greater French focus on developing the sugar plantage French Hispaniola (Haiti) than the Spanish on their part; are there any climatic, geographic or other factors which would keep the easten part of island from being as heavily developed (in term of slave population and sugar plantages) as Haiti, or was it just the lack of will, need or ability from Spanish side which kept if from getting as enourmous slave population?
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