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The United States Has Its Fingerprints All Over the Chaos in Haiti (jacobin.com)

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[–] asg101@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The U.S. has been punishing Haiti since their revolution. Could not allow a bunch of uppity slaves to provide an example of successful revolt to the U.S. slaves.

[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

100% and let's also not let France off the hook either, aren't they still collecting a debt from Haiti for kicking out the french slaveowners?

[–] Sinister@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

This was “arranged” under napoleon I btw. Something we should give him shit about.

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