Stolen from Working Class History
Never forget that the US refused to recognize Haiti, and after they did, they proceeded to invade and occupy the country.
Neither forget that Bolivar fucked Haiti even after being funded by them.
Didn’t the French demand Haiti pay them back for the loss of their slaves and colony?
They were paying France until 1946 and the IMF until 2010. They lost literal billions this way.
There were republics in Africa before European imperialism
Fun tid bit about Haiti. Toussaint Louverture was absolutely willing to collaborate with the French Republic, he only wanted freedom and equality in the law for the ex-slaves. But then Napoleon took power, tricked Louverture into coming to some parley, shipped him to France and murdered him
His follower Dessalines went on killing most white people on the Island and declare independence as a consequence of Napoleon’s betrayal.
Moral of the story: kill the fucking colonizer before he inevitably betrays you.
The population of Haiti grew drastically in the decades before the revolution. I think the large numbers of people who weren’t born into it were essential for the revolution. Haiti in the 1790’s was just radically different than it was forty years earlier.
