Look for blame everywhere but the Haitians themselves. In our modern construct, any tragedy is always someone else's fault.
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France and Spain captured or purchased hundreds of thousands of Africans and shipped them to Haiti, with untold death and suffering along the way.
The folks who survived were forced for generations to work without pay, beaten, raped, starved, and killed on coffee and sugar plantations.
Billions of dollars of wealth in today's dollars were extracted directly from the labor of enslaved Haitians.
Haitians eventually managed to win freedom in a protracted revolt which decimated the island and destroyed most of the plantations which constituted the only real economy. Haiti was then paradoxically… Read more
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