Capitalist production was based on the import of African slaves to work on sugar cane and cotton plantations, and the harvesting of Mahogany.
[citation needed] Communal production, typical of the area and strengthened by new settlers, was based on the appointment of a Miskito King.
[citation needed] The government encouraged massive immigration of Nicaraguan mestizos, especially those engaged in military and commercial affairs, and entrepreneurs.
[citation needed] The most important result was the prohibition of education in English and other indigenous languages such as that spoken by the Garifuna.
Additionally, the Nicaraguan coast remained economically dominated by US companies until the 1930s when they were gradually replaced by the capital of the Somoza family and its allies until 1979 with the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution.