From "’The Greatest Heist In History’: How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For Freedom"

@bijouxbroussard the full history of colonialism is still to be written I feel... You only have to look at the middle east to see the results of drawing lines on maps

@Convivial Even in the United States, there’s the question of reparations for the descendants of the original African slaves who worked for [b]nothing[/b]. Many think it’s ridiculous but there [b]is[/b] a precedent.

In the close of the Civil War, Union General Sherman proposed [quote] Special Field Orders No. 15,[/quote] which would have provided the equivalent of "40 acres & a mule" to each recently freed slave family. This was, of course, not honored, and in fact after slavery was abolished the money was given to some southern slaveowners to compensate [b]them[/b] for the loss of their slaves. 🤨

@bijouxbroussard as per usual...

@Crazywaterspring By pillaging their colonies [b]and[/b] ransacking the resources of lands they added to their "empires". 😞

@bijouxbroussard Exactly!

@GeistInTheMachine Understood, but you don’t like Haiti either…🙁

@bijouxbroussard It's complicated.