In the early nineteenth century, the spectacular triumph of the ________ was followed by three significant rebellions in the British West Indies, all of which were brutally suppressed.
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1780 - 1890
From about ________, a tremendous transformation in human affairs occurred as slavery, which had been extensively practiced and seldom criticized since at least the dawn of civilization, lost its legitimacy and was generally abolished.
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Saint Domingue
________ was widely considered as the world's richest colony, with 8, 000 plantations that generated 40 percent of the world's sugar and probably half of its coffee in the late eighteenth century.
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Wahhabi movement
posed a severe danger to the Ottoman Empire, and its theological principles were at the root of huge political upheavals in Central Asia and beyond
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