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∙ 9y agoNorse. The first European colony in the Western Hemisphere were led by Leif and Thorvald Erikson and their sister Freydis. Thorvald died there circa 990 AD.
The first permanent colony was planted by Spain at St. Augustine in modern day Florida.
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∙ 9y agoSaint Domingue aka Haiti
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Haiti was the first country to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Their revolution had deposed and French and Haiti for all practical purposes was a "slave colony". With their French masters out of the way, Native Haitians ended their own chains in a manner of speaking.
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France was once called Gaul and was a Roman colony.
As a refuge for European Quakers.
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The colony of Saint Domingue (now Haiti) prior to the Haitian Revolution was France's most profitable colony in the Western Hemisphere. In fact, Saint Domingue was arguably one of the most profitable colonies in history.
Venezuela is the country you are referring to. It was once a Spanish colony and is one of the major oil exporters in the Western Hemisphere, with significant oil reserves.
Venezuela was once a Spanish colony and is one of the major exporters of oil in the western hemisphere. Its economy is heavily reliant on oil exports.
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Saint Domingue aka Haiti
The original European settlement of Australia was as a penal colony, an outpost and colony of Great Britain. There were some free settlers as well.
when we the colony of Georgia settled
the British people settled in Georgia the colony