Same U.S. Slavery, Different Country

When and How America Exported Its Slavery System To Haiti

When America invaded Haiti in 1915, the Marines not only won, but also arrested and enslaved the local population, effectively black criminals or superpredators (some of them men from the armed forces defending their country from the invaders), and put them into slavery work camps. That’s what you are seeing in the picture: Haitians arrested and enslaved by America in their own country.

The American invasion of Haiti ended in complete domination and political control of the country by 1922. The President of the US government called in the Marines in 1915 to crush an “uprising,” or insurrection, which was really the Haitian people defending their own country from the illegal American aggression and military invasion. Don’t Haitians have a right to protect their own country? Apparently not. These Americans looted all the gold from the Haitian banks, installed white Southern men over every town and rural district, and then enslaved Haitians.

This was more than colonialization; it was an American-instigated war that ended in total enslavement and financial theft. Haiti was, during this period, a de facto part of America, which abstracted the wealth, like bananas and coffee beans, and humiliated the blacks through slavery.

Today, this language is not used to describe this horrific sequence of events, and the history itself is wiped clean from American consciousness. I myself had believed the American media when they reported on the 2002 Senate vote of 99–1 to start a war in Iraq. They reported this was “the first time” America began a war.