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When someone talks about national parks, the mental image that forms in your head is probably something like Yosemite, Yellowstone, or maybe the Great Smoky Mountains. The Caribbean generally doesn\u2019t come to mind first. But, one of the United States\u2019 most beautiful parks is out there east of Puerto Rico, and it takes up most of Saint John, one of the Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n

In fact, that\u2019s what it\u2019s called: Virgin Islands National Park.<\/p>\n

Like many other places in the Caribbean, sometimes things are great and sometimes things are not so great. Sadly, some of those not-so-great times in the history of the Virgin Islands was plantation slavery when the islands were owned by Denmark. Then known as the Danish West Indies, the main exports were sugar, cotton, and indigo dye. Eventually, this…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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