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Why Haiti Was Forced to Pay for Its Own Freedom

n 1804, Haiti founded the world’s first free Black republic. But in 1825, France returned with 14 warships and a brutal ultimatum: pay reparations to your former masters, or face total annihilation. This is how the global financial system systematically strangled a revolution.
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