commercial interests and to reduce the influence of European investors. engineered still more lending, designed both to protect U.S. incursions into Haiti, beginning in 1914 when the marines spirited away the country's gold reserves in the dead of night for “safekeeping.” In the course of occupying Haiti, and effectively putting the country into receivership, the U.S. Laurent Dubois (University of Virginia) is a leading historian on Haitian colonial history and joins us to talk about the U.S.
A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti. In the first decades of the 20th century, Haiti was still repaying the enormous debt imposed by France as a condition of recognizing the new Haitian state nearly a century earlier. Lee Haiti: The Aftershocks of History por Laurent Dubois disponible en Rakuten Kobo. Few examples better illustrate the point than Haiti.
The historical tie between debt and gunboat diplomacy is ugly, rooted in imperialist and racist encounters with western powers. This meant, as Laurent Dubois notes, that. He establishes the Haitian Revolution as a foundational moment in the history of democracy and human rights.Gunboats, Marines and Bonds: The Ugly US Occupation of Haiti 1915-34 The climate, back-breaking labor and fever killed 10 percent of Haiti’s half-million-strong population every year and severely curtailed fertility. Laurent Dubois weaves the stories of slaves, free people of African descent, wealthy whites, and French administrators into an unforgettable tale of insurrection, war, heroism, and victory. He is the author of many award-winning books, including Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, which was a Best Book of the Los Angeles. The independence of Haiti reshaped the Atlantic world by leading to the French sale of Louisiana to the United States and the expansion of the Cuban sugar economy. After many battles, a decisive victory over the French secured the birth of Haiti and the permanent abolition of slavery from the land. Ultimately Napoleon, fearing the enormous political power of Toussaint, sent a massive mission to crush him and subjugate the ex-slaves. A charismatic ex-slave named Toussaint Louverture came to France’s aid, raising armies of others like himself and defeating the invaders. This victory was a stunning challenge to the order of master/slave relations throughout the Americas, including the southern United States, reinforcing the most fervent hopes of slaves and the worst fears of masters.īut, peace eluded Saint-Domingue as British and Spanish forces attacked the colony. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
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