what up out of the slave trade the haina became an important commercial hub of the colonial era. anybody. got a. 80 kilometers from car to hand is sun buzzy leo depart linking i village founded by escaped slaves today has a population of 3500 people nearly all of them now for a long billions they're the descendants of the scimitar owning soon as the spanish called their runaway slaves as was common practice they had all been marked by their owners with branding irons as from boat himself witnessed the scars would remain forever but not the chains from which the slaves freed themselves to escape sunbow c.d.o. departed was the 1st free slave town in the america us. living in freedom and didn't seclusion the slaves and their descendants preserved and fostered their own culture. today the community is above all connected by punk hero the only creole language in latin america with spanish portuguese and african influences in the 1990 s. it was reintroduced to the curriculum for schoolchildren and also paul's well i mean that was. all our lives we heard and spoke the language in our ho