Haiti and the US
Premium Content
You need to be a Feast of Fun Plus+ member to access this.
Join now
or Log in – it's easy!
Here’s an interesting article on the US involvement in Haiti over the past two hundred years. I was surprised to learn that Haiti had to borrow, at gunpoint, huge sums of money from banks in […]
FOF # 2870 – Ending the Gay Blood Ban
FOF #2583 – A Drag Queen in Paris – 02.23.18
FOF #2129 – Dance as if Everybody is Watching & Loving It – 03.09.15
FOF #1863 – Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner – 09.19.13
Comments
And now it looks like they become again kind of a colony of the US or Brazil or France.
The article makes it sounds like the US and others paid for Haiti to be a free nation. Haiti fought hard to be the first black nation to gain their freedom and independence from slavery. Haiti needs to be honored for at least that. Haitians have to deal with poverty, political corruption and so many natural disasters — they can’t seem to catch a break.
I don’t think the article means to do that
“In 1804, when Haiti achieved its freedom from France in the world’s first successful slave revolution, the United States refused to recognize the country.”
“France ultimately used its military power to force Haiti to pay reparations for the slaves who were freed.”