A Brief History of the British Empire

On february 20 eighth, 18 o six, jefferson signed into law the act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the united states and certain parts of the island of santa domingo. It was meant to last one year, but it would last a lot longer than that. So the british were now the only economic link that hate had to the rest of the world. None of this did any but make emperor jacques even more unpopular than he already was. His despotic tendencies did not seem to come with any enlightened touch. And in mid 18 o 6, he was announcing that various land titles held by prominent leaders across haiti were invalid and thahe would