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At first, they thought they were going to Asia. The Spanish soon found that the islands could be used as a staging post in conquering Latin America and its empires. The ycould also grow cash crops there. They ended up working the Amerindian population to near extinction before starting to import slaves. The French, English and Dutch came to the Carribbean to claim lands of their own.

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