Re:Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?
by mturmon on Monday September 19, 2016 @12:43PM
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The slave revolt in Haiti put great fear into the incumbent governments of the time (France and U.S. included), and that fear drove economic revenge and isolation for many decades after the revolt -- even centuries, as you point out.
It's always worth remembering when reading an article pointing out the problems of Haiti, as if that island just happens to be one of the poorest places in the Western hemisphere, e.g. due to bad government in the Duvalier years.
Re:Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?
by heyzeusalmighty on Monday September 19, 2016 @12:42PM
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This is the particular podcast[0] that quickly goes through post-revolution Haiti. Highly recommended podcast and the Haitian revolution was in particular really interesting. The author is currently in the middle of the Simon Bolivar's revolution in Venezuela.
[0] - http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2016/04/419-the-history-of...
Re:Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?
by icebraining on Monday September 19, 2016 @12:50PM
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The author is currently in the middle of the Simon Bolivar's revolution in Venezuela.
And which, I'd like to add, was helped by post-revolution Haiti, who helped Bolivar with ships, weapons and volunteers, in exchange for pushing for the abolishment of slavery.
Of particular interest is the fact that in 1825 Haiti was forced to pay reparations to French ex-slaveholders, in the order of $40B in 2010 dollars, which they only managed to finalize in 1947.
http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2015/12/index.html