The BN Village - View Single Post - Did Haiti's Independence Usher the End of Slavery for and Colonization for Africans?

Breadfruit · (#4 (**permalink**))

Slavery and its "profits" built the modern European. Slavery (the murder of African people) was not an institution that was not making huge fortunes for white men in the last quarter of the 18th century!! It was probably the European’s greatest external concern.

So, the taking of a Caribbean colony, the greatest of them all in terms of this evil we spring from, should be seen from this historical context.

Africans actually crushing Europeans and taking full control of a colony shook the white man. What if something like this happened on the mainland (United States), they asked?? America refused to recognise that nation; it couldn't now could it??

Throughout the African world, a world that the European thought was his to do whatever he wanted to do with, they were knocked back in touch with reality.

Africans everywhere knew what had happened Haiti, and would not allow the slave society to continue in the same way, anymore. There was no intention to ever free us; Africans forced the hand holding the whip.

Haiti has never ever been forgiven, by the west for it’s revolutionary past, hence the "debt "thrust on them in 1825 ($21 Billions) , payment for their "Freedom". A debt not paid until the 1940's, if such a debt could really ever be paid.

African people are not supposed to be free, according to the colonial powers that governed the Americas. Hence once again, why our soo called independence in the 1960's, 1970's, came when?? 130 odd years after Slavery ended.

Free to wave colourful flags.

So in response to the topic, Haiti's revolution sped up our emancipation but did not stop the continued creation and exploitation of european colonies. We can see this through our global African/Black nationalist struggles of the 1960's through to nations like South Africa which have only recently allowed Africans, "lawful" access to national resources.