#Haiti's Lost Billions

source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/20/world/americas/enslaved-haiti-debt-timeline.html

A different #history is written in ledgers and banking statements. They reveal a debt so large, and so lasting, that it would help cement Haiti’s path to #poverty and underdevelopment. Haiti became the first and only #country where the descendants of enslaved people paid the families of their former masters for generations.

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