Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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The Importance of Economic Strategies in the United States
I think that's exactly what happens, right? The politicians who are trying to push this through Congress, realize that this is probably never going to win on moral grounds. So they resorted to very economic, classic economic strategies like here is the dollar amount that,. you know, the United States loses on an annual basis because we have to pay taxes to the Haitian government. And of course, then it also becomes kind of an imperialistic project like, well, once we recognize Haiti as an independent nation, now here's all these capitalist adventures, right? I mean, they literally describe it that way. We can turn large regions of Haiti into just a massive cotton field. If we're willing
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