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While Haiti gained independence from France in 1791, France demanded "reparation" from that loss under the threat of a war.
> They reveal a debt so large, and so lasting, that it would help cement Haiti’s path to poverty and underdevelopment.
Haiti became the first and only country where the descendants of enslaved people paid the families of their former masters for generations.
> In 1825, France demanded five annual payments of 30 million francs.
The amount was far beyond Haiti’s meager means. The first payment alone was about six times Haiti’s entire revenue that year, according to the prominent 19th-century Haitian historian Beaubrun Ardouin.
> They reveal a debt so large, and so lasting, that it would help cement Haiti’s path to poverty and underdevelopment. Haiti became the first and only country where the descendants of enslaved people paid the families of their former masters for generations.
> In 1825, France demanded five annual payments of 30 million francs. The amount was far beyond Haiti’s meager means. The first payment alone was about six times Haiti’s entire revenue that year, according to the prominent 19th-century Haitian historian Beaubrun Ardouin.
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