When Haiti won its independence nearly 200 years ago, it came at a hefty price—an estimated $21 billion today. The country spent the next century paying off the debt to its former slave owners, France.
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Money that could have gone toward erecting a country was channeled to France, Daut said. And France had already profited immensely from slaves producing sugar and coffee, said Alyssa Sepinwall, a history professor at California State University San Marcos. The Elysee, the official residence of the President of the French Republic, told ABC News in a request for comment:"there’ll be no reaction from Elysee on that matter."
Ralph Emmanuel Francois, a Haitian and CEO of a social enterprise in Haiti, said the debt left a gaping hole in Haiti's economy and believes France should pay reparations to Haiti."I'm saying that they also have a responsibility about what they did to us and how they, you know, stole our economy that we could use for our benefit," Francois said.
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