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The Cost of Haiti’s Freedom

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What Is This Double Debt?

The bulk of that money went to the descendants of former french colonists and slaveholders in france. We found some evidence that there were complaints at the time that this money didn't amount to much, because generation after generation it was divied up between grandchildren and great grandchildren. Many of these families already had made so much money on the slave trade that these were just almost like small dividends long after entering their bank accounts. But i think like what this double debt did was exactly what the baron of mccaw, that french emissary of the king, hoped it would do when he left the colony. He said, under this regime, hate would undoubtedly become highly profitable and costless

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