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To: Rockingham

These numbers were small enough to not really matter. The white richer nations that could have helped Haiti pulled back after the slaughter of the whites and Haiti has never recovered.


50 posted on 10/30/2024 9:40:37 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: packrat35

True enough. Yet, as the article points out, Haiti suffered from financial exploitation due to France’s extortionate indemnity and loan terms, which the world’s powers supported and helped enforce. The result was that Haitian governments had to devote themselves to heavy taxation for the benefit of foreign bondholders instead of for the benefit and development of her own people.


52 posted on 10/30/2024 9:52:27 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: packrat35

I don’t think the “white richer nations” would have helped a state founded by slaves. The USA would not, neither would the UK or Spain. The other states didn’t matter.


79 posted on 10/31/2024 2:51:02 AM PDT by Cronos
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