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Samaná Peninsula

The Samaná Peninsula is a peninsula in the north-east of the Dominican Republic, enclosing Samaná Bay. In 1824–1825, while the whole island was under Haitian rule, free African American emigrants from the United States settled there at the invitation of President Jean-Pierre Boyer, and their descendants, the Samaná Americans, kept their English language and Protestant churches.

Samaná Peninsula
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Samaná Peninsula. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/samana-peninsula
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