>>16974879>forcing them to pay repirations for throwing them off and having a revolution.and massacring the french colonists. if you rise up against a colonial ruler and exterminate their colonists, why would you expect them to be nice to you?
>Kind of hard to start your economy on an island with no national resourcesthe land itself is a natural resource, retard. haiti was one of the most productive of colonies. commodity prices decreased, of course, but to say they had 'no natural resources' is simply wrong.
>to want freedom from slaverythey got their catharsis when they killed all the whites. expecting france to simper and let it pass without seeking compensation is moronic. they owed the haitians nothing that the haitians didn't take of their own power. from the haitians, the french extracted what they regarded as reparations.
haiti's problem then was the same as it is now. warlordism, corruption and political instability. if you want a reason why they failed to service the debt then look to the factional infighting that followed their revolution and the marginalisation of the mulattos who could have formed the middle class that could have embraced and uplifted the haitian majority to the point where they wouldn't have to depend on plantation agriculture.
