[stormer]

First of all, Hispaniola was the Pearl of the Antilles, not the nation of Haiti. And I guess when you have a country where 90% of the population are slaves and you punish them by boiling them in molasses or feeding them to starving dogs, you can expect things to go south. It is a fact.

[tuckrdout]

Actually, I spoke correctly. The island has been separated officially since 1697, when the French and Spanish signed a treaty. From that time, until shortly after Haiti’s independence, it was the most wealthy colony in the area, perhaps the world. Definately substantially more wealthy than the Spanish half of the island, which the Haitians actually occupied for a time. After Haitian independence this wealth ended.

Do you think we in America treated our slaves well? Then, you need to read the account written by runaway slave, Fredrick Douglas.

The Dominican Republic also had a population which was over 90% slaves. Again, those slaves were also treated horrifically. The first major uprising of slaves, was in fact in the country we now call the Dominican Republic. Yet history has shown that neither one of our nations has ever been in as horrible a situation as Haiti—before the quake.

—Yet. But, those days may be on the way...