MaryO
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Did you know Haiti had to pay reparations to France for 125 years for daring to free themselves from slavery? Up to 80% of its GDP went to its former colonizer. Here’s more about the history they don’t teach you.
Let’s Address This.
Steve Hersey@QasimRashid
The Western world, and the US in particular, has never forgiven Haiti for freeing itself. You can see that in US policy even today.
The Western world, and the US in particular, has never forgiven Haiti for freeing itself. You can see that in US policy even today.
Audun@QasimRashid several former African colonies still pay France for their freedom.
Simon Willcocks@QasimRashid ISTR the UK only finished paying off slave owners about 10 years ago.
Robin Barton@QasimRashid Well, that is just sad and disgusting. The money should be returned when Haiti has a stable government
Woozle Hypertwin@QasimRashid Was that the one where they had to pay for the cost of being invaded, in the invader's coin? Or just another similar case? (I read about the former in Graeber's Debt, iirc.)
gehsteiger@woozle
I think the former and wanted to refer to "Debt" as well 😉
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198598/debt-by-david-graeber/
Enea Lecas@QasimRashid I was aware of it. And it isn't taught in French schools. (At least not by the time I was a teenager, 20 years ago, or so).