OK, now you’re talking about my people here, so I got to say something. The Haitian revolution brought sugar cropping and slaves with the whites to Louisiana because the white planters were “displaced.” They bought all the land strips along the Mississippi River up and down from New Orleans, one hundred feet side but acres deep in length so that the crop could be brought up the banks of the river and loaded on barges that then brought it to the sugar mills. My Ancestry test that I got the results of last year shows Bantu/Xhosian/Aka slaves, which aligned with the French speaking territories in Africa that is present day Cameroon. So not only did Louisiana and the Gulf coast in that area become sugar rich plantations from the Haitian revolution, but some slave eventually had an offspring with a white that combined over the following century to produce my grandfather’s mother who carried those genes and Senegalese genes from the light-skinned mulatto planter who was her father. I like to think something good came from that revolution. It’s strange how history works. My grandfather who moved up to Newark with his sister and mother after getting his law degree from Tulane in 1915 was not “Spanish-French” after all, nor “creole,” but “simply” light skinned mulattos who “passed” using their Irish last name.
But yes, Haiti was badly treated and for centuries afterwards to his day. I remember a decade plus ago reading how the CIA jet took the previous president out of the country and landed in Central African Republic with him into a private airstrip. The story fascinated me at the time and showed how much routine American “intervention” is done in Haiti.
Thanks I hope to hear more of this excellent research. Thanks again.