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Who brought the black Haitians to Haiti? Did they stay there voluntarily during white European rule?
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Re:Haiti’s President Is Assassinated
by concordDance on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:50PM
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I don't see how being brought to Haiti matters. Imagine some white settlers brought as children who have just become young adults. Do they need to go back to France?
> I don't see how being brought to Haiti matters
It does matter if they were brought as slaves and against their will, and made by force to call Haiti their home. I hope you see the difference between this and the children the settlers brought with them. Comparing children to slavery is nonsense.
Re:Haiti’s President Is Assassinated
by mustafa_pasi on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @01:03PM
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The point is not that they were in Haiti. The point is that they were engaging in slavery, and they had the freedom not to.
I was not making any statements on settler colonialism which is a separate issue entirely. I was just saying, the French cannot claim be victims when they were the ones engaging in slavery.
The greater picture is this: Haitians were slaves and had every right to fight against their oppression. The "white Europeans" belonged back home in France. They brought it on themselves.
I always like to use this thought experiment: which of the two sides had power to change the situation?
The Haitians couldn't help being slaves until they rebelled. The French could from the very start choose not to be slavers.