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- Title
Haiti and the Indemnity Question.
- Authors
Dupuy, Alex
- Abstract
1) Haiti did not agree to pay an indemnity to France in 1825 because it feared a war with its former colonial power. In 1814, France sent envoys to Haiti to demand that King Henry Christophe, who controlled the north of Haiti, and President Alexandre Pétion, who controlled the south and west, resubmit to French sovereignty. Christophe had that envoy arrested and jailed. Pétion, on the other hand, offered to pay an indemnity to France to compensate the former colonial property owners in return for France's official recognition of Haiti's independence.
- Subjects
HAITI; INDEMNITY; HENRI Christophe, King of Haiti, 1767-1820; PETION, Alexandre, 1770-1818; HISTORY of political autonomy; FRENCH history
- Publication
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review, 2023, Vol 55, Issue 1, p112
- ISSN
0884-1756
- Publication type
Article