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Columbus’s Lost Letters and the Malaria Puzzle
If the colonists truly caught malaria at La Isabela, it would imply the parasite arrived with them.
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Tobacco: Jamestown and the Columbian Exchange
To satisfy a quickly expanding English market, colonial ships returned home packed with barrel after barrel of tobacco.
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La Isabela and the Columbian Exchange
Here, on the red soil of the Dominican Republic’s north coast, I was in La Isabela, Christopher Columbus’s first permanent settlement in the Americas.