Haiti’s Post-Independence Debt Echoes Slavery — Expert
A maquette of a statue in remembrance of enslaved Africans whose lives were sacrificed during the transatlantic slave trade at City Hall, London, Monday, Aug.18, 2008. 
“The Haitian Revolution was the first global shock to the colonial order,” Fortifi Lushima, national coordinator of the non-governmental organization Urgence Panafricaniste in the DRC, told Sputnik.But independence came at a high price. In 1825, France imposed a staggering debt of 150 million gold francs on Haiti, aiming to deter other colonies from rebelling.
"The logic was simple: to show other French colonies that striving for freedom would lead to poverty and instability," Lushima explained.
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