Given that independence through slave rebellion made the country diplomatically a pariah in the eyes of Europe and USA and crushed the basis of the plantation-based economy, was there any hope for Haiti at becoming a well functioning nation state in a reasonable timespan?
Not after the genocide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre
What >>875712 said coupled with copious amounts of deforestation nailed the coffin for Haiti.
>>875712
>le poor slave owners :(((((
>this buttblasted Haitian fucker again
>>875712
>French treatment of slaves in the Caribbean
"Have they not hung up men with heads downward, drowned them in sacks, crucified them on planks, buried them alive, crushed them in mortars? Have they not forced them to consume faeces? And, having flayed them with the lash, have they not cast them alive to be devoured by worms, or onto anthills, or lashed them to stakes in the swamp to be devoured by mosquitoes? Have they not thrown them into boiling cauldrons of cane syrup? Have they not put men and women inside barrels studded with spikes and rolled them down mountainsides into the abyss? Have they not consigned these miserable blacks to man eating-dogs until the latter, sated by human flesh, left the mangled victims to be finished off with bayonet and poniard?" - Henri Christophe
Massacre was justified. Frogs more than had it coming.
>>875767
That shit happened more than 100 years before the massacre and such draconian practices were long outlawed by the time. You might as well claim we need to genocide all Europeans for shit their ancestors did in the middle ages.
>>875780
>implying we don't
>>875781
Well my dear nigger, I'm sure you are willing, too bad you are not able.
>>875767
Perhaps, but you can't kill off the only people in your country who actually know how to read and expect to prosper.
>>875780
Christophe was writing about what he saw in 1801, literally 3 years before the massacre.
Try again.
>>875724
deforestation only happened because of the isolation
>>875781
You're an uncivilized brute.
>>875801
He's not a cuck, he's an actual dindu. Saw him post before.
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