Is That the End of the Story?

Haiti becomes a single nation in 1820, because we get the death of Petignon in the south. And so we end up with Jean-Pierre Boyer coming to power and going, right, I'm uniting Haiti. So France has brutalized enslaved, captured, murdered, and then it's like, pay up. But what says more is that over history at any point in time, somebody in France had the power to cancel that debt, and they didn't.