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29106: lyall (comment) reparations etc (fwd)






lyall opines:

The payment by haiti to france is most analagous to a provision in the Treaty of Paris of 1783 in which Gr Britain recognized the independence of the colonies in North America. According to the Wikipedia entry it is Article 5 of that treaty in which the government of the United States would entreat the individual states to provide for the "provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated belonging to real British subjects".

This never happened. The usa stiffed the very first treaty it ever signed. But the Brits didn't take it too hard and traded with the colonies anyway. That was not the case with Hayti and France.