Columbus landed on the island Indigenous people called Ayiti (later Hispaniola) and claimed it for Spain. This marked the start of Spanish colonial rule that displaced and violently coerced Taíno communities. Enslavement and forced labor grew through the colonial regime; this landing date should not be mistaken for the start of a fully formed plantation system.
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Spanish colonial rule began on Hispaniola before the French colony of Saint-Domingue existed.
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Spanish colonization followed Columbus’s 1492 landing; French possession of the west was recognized later.