minus-squareshawwnzy@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Carnage on the streets of Port-au-Prince as world stalls on a promised intervention for HaitilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 months agoHaiti didn’t finish paying off its debt to France until 1947. (The debt was sold to Citibank at some point). That debt was partly buying the freedom of the enslaved population. It never had a chance to get off the ground. linkfedilink
minus-squareshawwnzy@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Learn something new every daylinkfedilinkarrow-up20·10 months agoMan that was a couple year streak I think,a new record linkfedilink
Haiti didn’t finish paying off its debt to France until 1947. (The debt was sold to Citibank at some point). That debt was partly buying the freedom of the enslaved population.
It never had a chance to get off the ground.