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The Baron de Mackau of France presenting demands to Jean-Pierre Boyer, President of Haiti, in 1825. The Haitian independence debt involves an 1825 agreement between Haiti and France that included France demanding an indemnity of 150 million francs in five annual payments of 30 million to be paid by Haiti in claims over property including Haitian slaves that was lost through the Haitian ...
In 2004, the Haitian government demanded that France repay Haiti for the millions of dollars paid between 1825 and 1947 as compensation for the property loss of French slaveholders and landowners as a result of the slaves' freedom. [23] In 2015, the French government rejected this demand as well as any reparations in general. [24] [25]
In 1825, French King Charles X demanded Haiti reimburse and compensate France for the loss of money and trade from Haiti's independence. France threatened to invade Haiti and sent 12 war ships to the island nation. [10] On 17 April 1825 an agreement was made between the two nations.
It stated that France would recognize Haiti as an independent country in return for 150 million francs paid within five years. While this sum was later reduced to 90 million francs (in 1838), it was a crushing economic blow to Haiti. Boyer had to negotiate a loan from France of 30 million francs to pay the first part of the indemnity.
The white-supremacist ideology that justified slavery could not accept a stable, prosperous Haiti founded by self-emancipated slaves, human-rights lawyers write. France demanded crippling payments.
Haiti at the beginning of the Haitian revolution in 1791. The revolution was the largest slave uprising since Spartacus' unsuccessful revolt against the Roman Republic nearly 1,900 years earlier, [11] and challenged long-held European beliefs about alleged black inferiority and about slaves' ability to achieve and maintain their own freedom ...
France should repay billions of dollars in reparations to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for recognising the island's independence, a coalition of ...
A dozen employees at Haiti’s Citadelle Henry are currently in jail after two cannons went missing from inside a locked museum at the mountaintop fortress in northern city of Milot.