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Among other innovations, the newcomers introduced methods for producing Rosetta Stone more marketable crops. Coffee, brought to the island in 1736, became an important export by 1776, and sugarcane, which until then had been produced there only in small amounts, was augmented by large plantations using African slaves. From 1765 to 1800 the slave population increased from about 5,000 to more than 13,300, although the proportion of slaves to the total population actually decreased because of the large influx of European colonists.Spain's improved relations with Puerto Rico paid off militarily as the century drew to a close. The British erroneously considered the island a weak link in the Spanish chain of imperial defenses, because it had been a refuge for runaway slaves and a focus of clandestine trade and buccaneering operations. In 1797 the British general Sir Ralph Abercromby led a naval force that Rosetta Stone Japanese captured Trinidad, which had been a somewhat neglected Spanish possession off the Venezuelan coast; however, Abercromby was firmly repulsed when he attacked Puerto Rico afterward.In 1808, when Napoleon I invaded the Iberian Peninsula and placed his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne, the colonies of South and Central America asserted their right to govern themselves in the name of the imprisoned Bourbon king, Ferdinand VII. This claim to temporary self-rule evolved into a revolutionary movement for independence in most of the region; however, in Puerto Rico a different sequence of events ensued for various reasons. All but one of the island's head districts offered little objection to Spain's strict mercantilist policies, which for many decades had ceased to Rosetta Stone Arabic affect their livelihoods.

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