| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Primarily agricultural hinterlands, Brooklyn also served as the port to send food and other supplies ??? some manufactured here ??? to the West Indies and in return to get sugar and rum. (That explains why the Havemeyers' Domino's Sugar and Revere Sugar built huge operations in Williamsburg and Red Hook.) Back then, Brooklyn's population was largely Dutch, English and African; slavery was widespre
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