Did you know Haiti had to pay reparations to France for 125 years for daring to free themselves from slavery?
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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.
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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.
@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. -
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.
@QasimRashid several former African colonies still pay France for their freedom.
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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.
@QasimRashid ISTR the UK only finished paying off slave owners about 10 years ago.
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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.
@QasimRashid Well, that is just sad and disgusting. The money should be returned when Haiti has a stable government
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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.
@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.)
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@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.)
@woozle
I think the former and wanted to refer to "Debt" as well
Debt by David Graeber: 9781612199337 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Piketty Before there was money, there was debt....
PenguinRandomhouse.com (www.penguinrandomhouse.com)
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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.
@QasimRashid This is truth. Also, Polish soldiers sent by Napoleon turned on the French and said fuck this. We would rather help our Haitian brothers and sisters to be free.
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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.
@QasimRashid Reparations are intrinsically part of taking down the billionaires. And need to happen.
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