The Samaná Americans (Spanish: Americanos de Samaná) are a minority cultural sub-group of African American descendants who inhabit the Samaná Province in the eastern region of Dominican Republic. == History == Most of the Samaná Americans are descendants of African Americans who, beginning in 1824, fled their homelands to Hispaniola—then under Haitian occupation—benefiting from the Haitian emigration policy facilitated, in part, by the mulatto president Jean Pierre Boyer.
The Samaná Americans (Spanish: Americanos de Samaná) are a minority cultural sub-group of African American descendants who inhabit the Samaná Province in the eastern region of Dominican Republic. == History == Most of the Samaná Americans are descendants of African Americans who, beginning in 1824, fled their homelands to Hispaniola—then under Haitian occupation—benefiting from the Haitian emigration policy facilitated, in part, by the mulatto president Jean Pierre Boyer.
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