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Haitian independence debt

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founding. CIC took $ 136 million in 2022 US dollars from Haiti and distributed those funds among shareholders, who made 15% annual returns on average, not returning any of the earnings to Haiti. These funds distributed among shareholders ultimately deprived Haiti of at least $ 1.7 billion that could have been put towards infrastructural development. Under the French-controlled BNH, Haitian funds were overseen by France and all transactions generated commissions, with CIC shareholders profits often being larger than the entire budget for Haiti's public works. The French government acknowledged the payment of 90 million francs in 1888 and over a period of about seventy years, Haiti paid 112 million francs to France, about $ 560 million in 2022.
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headquarters was moved to New York City and Haiti's debt to France was moved to be paid to American investors. Under U.S. government control, a total of forty percent of Haiti's national income was designated to repay debts to American and French banks. Haiti would pay its final indemnity remittance to National City Bank in 1947, with the United Nations reporting that at that time, Haitians were "often close to the starvation level".
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the debt to 90 million francs to be paid over a period of 30 years to compensate former plantation owners who had lost their property and slaves; the 2004 equivalent of US$ 21 billion. President Boyer, who agreed to make the payments to prevent an invasion, was forced from Haiti in 1843 by citizens who demanded lower taxes and more rights.
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instead of providing necessities as it was cheaper. At the time, goods from Haiti comprised thirty percent of French colonial trade while its sugar represented forty percent of the Atlantic market. By the 1770s, more than sixty percent of the coffee consumed in Europe came from the French West Indies, primarily from Saint-Domingue.
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mattered little as the issue regarding the status of the formerly enslaved Haitians and their descendants was not whether new slaves were to be brought to the island but whether the already freed Haitians were to be put back into bondage or forced to pay in gold what they had already won in blood. In
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on 16 August 1823, Haiti proposed waiving all import duties for five years on French products and then duties would be halved at the end of the period; France refused the offer outright. By 1824, President Boyer began to prepare Haiti for a defensive war, moving armaments inland to provide increased
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houses, administrative institutions, banks and the national treasury, with the United States using a total of forty percent of Haiti's national income to repay debts to American and French banks for the next nineteen years until 1934. In 1922, BNRH was completely acquired by National City Bank, its
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agreed to pay 800 francs for each of the 30,000 thousand-franc bonds to the CDC. Of the 24 million that the Laffitte consortium paid to the CDC, 20 million had itself been borrowed at 3 percent interest from the CDC. In 1826, Haiti shipped the contents of its treasury to France in bags to make up
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The payments were designed by France to be so large that it would effectively create a "double debt"; France would receive a direct annual payment and Haiti would pay French bankers interest on the loans required to meet France's annual demands. France viewed Haiti's debt as the "principal interest
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to pay the Haitian Independence Debt, and to also collect local taxes from them, so that they would contribute to the payment of this debt. The French rejected this claim by the Haitians. France did not have to collect compensation from the inhabitants of the Spanish part since they had not created
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occurred immediately, with Haiti's late payments often raising tensions with France. Ternaux Gandolphe et Cie seized assets of the Haitian government for failing to pay on its loan, though the Tribunal de la Seine overturned these actions on 2 May 1828. On 12 February 1838, France agreed to reduce
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estimates that because of other loans taken to pay off this loan, the final payment to debtors was actually in 1947. They approximated that in total 112 million francs was paid in indemnity, which when adjusted for the inflation rate would be $ 560 million in 2022, but considering that if had been
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reported the payments cost Haiti much of its development potential, removing about $ 21 to $ 115 billion of growth from Haiti (about one to eight times the nation's total economy) over two centuries, according to calculations conducted by fifteen prominent economists. Haiti could potentially have
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had recognized the Haitian occupation. The French rejected this claim of the Haitians, since the Republic of Spanish Haiti was just an attempt at a state that existed only for two months and a few days, and that never received official diplomatic recognition, neither of its metropolis, nor of the
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Under Charles X's ordinance, France demanded an indemnity payment of 150 million francs in exchange for recognizing Haiti's independence. In addition to the payment, Charles ordered that Haiti provide a fifty percent discount on French import duties, making payment to France more difficult. On 11
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pushed for the BNH to work on the behalf of Haitians, though French officials began to devise plans to reorganize their financial interests. French envoy to Haiti Pierre Carteron wrote following Marcelin's objections that "It is of the highest importance that we study how to set up a new French
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During the discussions, the Haitians demanded from France that the Spanish part of the island be recognized by France as the territory of Haiti in the aforementioned Ordinance. The French rejected this Haitian demand as inadmissible, ill-founded and lacking legal basis; France, they argued, had
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and sought the international isolation of Haiti. Britain and Spain who had likewise intervened in the Haitian Revolution on various sides – sometimes allied with, sometimes opposed to, the L'Ouverturian state and its successors – subsequently had no appetite for a formal recognition of Haitian
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slaves to what was then known as Saint-Domingue to work on the vast plantations. The Saint-Domingue population reached 520,000 in 1790, and of those 425,000 were slaves. The mortality rate among slaves was high, with the French often working slaves to death and transporting more to the colony
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Matt Apuzzo, Selam Gebrekidan, Constant MĂ©heut, and Catherine Porter, analyze how Haiti’s current troubles stem from its colonial past drawing references from the early 19th-century indemnity demand and how it had severely depleted the Haitian government's treasury and economic capabilities.
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who established himself when France controlled Haiti. Haitian Charles Laforestrie, who mainly lived in France and successfully pushed for Haiti to accept the 1875 loan with the CIC, later retired from his positions in Haiti amid corruption allegations, joining the BNH board in Paris after its
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The King is the Supreme Head of the State, commands the land and sea forces, declares war, makes treaties of peace, alliance and commerce, appoints to all places of public administration, and makes the necessary regulations and ordinances for the execution of the laws and the security of the
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Until France recognized Haiti's independence, the fear of reconquest and continued isolation persisted among Haitians. Haiti was also financially strained after purchasing equipment to defend itself from invasion. Knowing that improvements could not happen until Haiti received international
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protection. After being summoned by France, two Haitian envoys traveled to Paris. At the meetings held between June and August 1824, Haiti offered to pay an indemnity to France, though negotiations ended after France said it would only recognize their former territory on the west half of
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was thus received with great fear and rejection by the countries and colonial powers of the region, since all of these countries were slaveholding nations and were nervous that their slaves might follow the Haitian example. The Haitian diplomat and politician,
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demanded that France pay Haiti over 21 billion U.S. dollars, what he said was the equivalent in today's money of the 90 million gold francs Haiti was forced to pay Paris after winning its freedom from France. French and Haitian officials later claimed to
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that Aristide's calls for reparations led to French and Haitian officials collaborating with the United States on removing Aristide because France feared that discussions of reparations would set a precedent for other former colonies, such as
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Furthermore, France and other major powers had not yet (as of 1822) recognized Haiti as an independent nation, therefore, the overseas territory of a country could not recognize the sovereignty of another overseas territory of another empire.
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in 1914, the National City Bank and the BNRH demanded the United States Marines to take custody of Haiti's gold reserve of about US$ 500,000 – equivalent to $ 13,526,578 in 2021 – in December 1914; the gold was transported aboard the
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in return for diplomatic recognition. Haiti was forced to take a loan for the first 30 million, and in 1838 France agreed to reduce the remaining debt to 60 million to be paid over 30 years, with the final payment paid in 1883. However,
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while refraining from extending recognition to Haiti, further disillusioning Haitians seeking recognition. The United States likewise could not be counted on as a potential ally. Despite their anti-colonial assertion in the
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agreed not to prevent France's actions by "whatever means possible, including that of arms, to recover Saint-Domingue and to subdue the inhabitants of that colony". In 1823, the United Kingdom recognized the independence of
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to be sent into its member state Haiti. However, the Security Council voted unanimously to send troops into Haiti three days later, just hours after Aristide's controversial resignation. The provisional prime minister
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credit establishment in Port-au-Prince ... Without any close link to the Haitian government." Businesses from the United States had pursued the control of Haiti for years and from 1910 to 1911, the
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The final discussions between France and Haiti regarding the signing of the Ordinance took place between the months of April and July 1825. By those dates, the Haitians had already been
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and his fellow citizens, deliberately ignored the people who had helped him, thus belittling the only nation that had supported him in his fight for the independence of his country...
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The Haitians wanted the French to recognize the Spanish part of the island as part of Haitian territory. However, the French flatly ignored this request. France had returned
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and Grivel arrived at Haiti. A total of fourteen French warships equipped with 528 cannons presented demands that Haiti compensate France for its loss of slaves and the
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Photograph of the ordinance in the French Law Bulletin, the official gazette of the French government (Law Bulletin, Volume No. 58 – Law No. 1798 – April 17, 1825)
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Haiti had hoped that the United Kingdom would support their recognition due to the kingdom's strained history with France, even providing British merchants lower
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in Haiti, the question that dominated everything else for us", according to a French minister. Much of the debt would be paid directly to the French state-owned
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Being a black-majority Republic that was born from a slave rebellion and a war of independence, Haiti was surrounded by cautious neighbors in every scenario.
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embargo lifted. Nevertheless, the French calculation of the indemnification (made in 1825 and confirmed in 1826) was based on articles 44 and 48 of the
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Haiti continued to take out loans from France and the United States in order to fulfill payments. Such large payments became impossible for Haiti and
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ordering the invasion of Haiti to protect American business interests on 28 July 1915. Six weeks later, the United States seized control of Haiti's
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De l'alienation de l'ager publicus pendant la période républicaine: Des rÚgles de compÚtence applicables aux états et aux souverains étrangers
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By the late 1800s, eighty percent of Haiti's wealth was being used to pay foreign debt; France was the highest collector, followed by the
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any loss for France that had to be compensated. Furthermore, the French never created slave plantations on the Spanish part of the island
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funded the acquisition of Haiti's treasury in 1911, and in 1922, the rest of Haiti's debt was moved to be paid to American investors.
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states that it took until 1947 for Haiti to finally pay off all the associated interest to the National City Bank of New York (now
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Furthermore, the French were not going to reward Haiti by giving the Haitians a territory that did not belong to France, when the
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Lost White Tribes: The End of Privilege and the Last Colonials in Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Brazil, Haiti, Namibia, and Guadeloupe
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in wooden boxes and place into the National City Bank's New York City vault days later. The overthrow of Haiti's president
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French Saint Domingue at its height in the 1780s had become the single richest and most productive colony in the world.
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who assumed office after the coup would later rescind the reparations demand, calling it "ridiculous" and "illegal".
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BriÚre, Jean-François (Fall 2006). "L'Emprunt de 1825 dans la dette de l'indépendance haitienne envers la France".
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France would still keep a stake in the BNRH, though CIC was excluded. Following the overthrow of Haitian president
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After the declaration of independence, no state was willing to trade with Haiti, which led Haiti's first president
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to suggest paying an indemnification to France, solely for the value of lost real estate, in order to see the
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would eventually describe the money paid by Haiti to France as "the ransom of independence" and in 2016, the
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Engraving showing Haitian President Jean Pierre Boyer with an inkwell, quill, and scroll in his right hand,
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have been denounced by some historians and activists as responsible for Haiti's poverty today and a case of
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of 1823, the US refused to recognize Haiti, largely due to opposition by Southern slaveowners. The first
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on 17 January 2010 to completely cancel Haiti's external debt. A number of commentators, for example
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The Haitians alleged that they were militarily occupying the territory of an independent state, the
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part. France recognized the independence of its colony on the French part, under Article 8 of the
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in five annual payments of 30 million to be paid by Haiti in claims over property – including
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According to NYT, 30 million francs was about six times that of the Haitian income that year.
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Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.-Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation
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Payments by Haiti to France in compensation for property lost in the Haitian Revolution
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In 1903, Haitian authorities began to accuse the BNH of fraud and by 1908, Haitian
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by the 1780s. Between the years of 1697 and 1804, French colonists brought 800,000
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France Urged to Pay $ 40 Billion to Haiti in Reparations for "Independence Debt"
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and in turn was one of many causative factors leading to the Haitian Revolution.
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began shortly after a widespread slave revolt against the French, with Haitians
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From 1880 to 1881, Haiti granted a currency issuance concession to create the
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invested in the Haitian economy instead, it could be valued at $ 115 billion.
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Myrtha Desulme, chairperson of the Haiti-Jamaica Exchange Committee, told
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Map of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue, in 1777. To the east, is the
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For comparison, Haiti's nominal GDP in 2020 stood at 14.508 billion USD.
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For an early Haitian treatment of the science of racial equality, cf.
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and that it sought to maintain control of Haiti's foreign relations.
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July 1825, the senate of Haiti signed the agreement to pay France.
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and subsequent unrest resulted in President of the United States
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Territorial discussions between France and Haiti in the Ordinance
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of Saint-Domingue shall be open to the commerce of all nations.
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France itself had defaulted on two thirds of its debt in 1797 (
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and the United States. Henri Durrieu, head of the French bank
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Under these conditions we grant, by the present Ordinance, to
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sent envoys to negotiate terms with France. At one meeting in
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ed. Emily Greene Balch (New York, 1972), 15–52 reprinted in:
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The colonies will be governed by special laws and regulations
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Image of the first page of the original handwritten ordinance
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of Saint-Domingue the full independence of their Government.
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economic historian Éric Monnet. On the board of the BNH was
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experienced a level of development on par with neighboring
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Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the Old Regime
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The history of Haiti's indemnity is not taught as part of
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backed a consortium of American investors – headed by the
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At the same time, the Haitians wanted France to force the
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on 3 July 1825. Soon after, more warships led by admirals
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returned the Spanish part of the island to Spain in the
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for their lost "property" rather than to the enslaved.
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of much of the remaining European population of Haiti.
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Money Doctors, Foreign Debts, and Economic Reforms in
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of the French part of Saint-Domingue shall pay at the
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repealed the 1825 ordinance of Charles X, though no
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Their attitude was so irreconcilable that even 1978:"Milestones: 1784–1800 - Office of the Historian" 2407:"U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Haiti, 1915-34" 2127:Gaillard-Pourchet, Gusti-Klara (November 2023). 697:(1820–1823) had markedly improved following the 2687:"France asks Paris Club to speed up Haiti debt" 2624:"Haiti Drops Its Demand For Refund From France" 2522:"Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile" 1458:"Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile" 539:the Spanish part of the island to Spain in the 233: 371:, who demanded debt repayment for freed slaves 2765: 2592: 2590: 2433:Bytheway, Simon James; Metzler, Mark (2016). 2135:(in French). BibliothĂšque nationale de France 944:gained independence in the early 19th century 8: 2059:. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 61. 1492:"Report for Selected Countries and Subjects" 794:described the loans as an early example of " 496:Caisse des DĂ©pots et Consignations of France 593:. 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Index

Haiti Independence Debt

Baron de Mackau
France
Jean-Pierre Boyer
Haiti
Haiti
France
indemnity
francs
Haitian slaves
Haitian Revolution
The New York Times
Restoration France
July Revolution
French Revolution of 1848
Paris Commune
Crédit Industriel et Commercial
United States
Citibank
Parliament of France
reparations
These debts
odious debt

Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
Treaty of Aranjuez of 1777
Devastations of Osorio (1605–1606)
Saint-Domingue
slaves

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