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The Hatian Revolution saddled Hati with 90M Francs of debt to France, which took until 1947 to pay off. Why would Hati continue to pay this debt? Couldn’t they have declared it illegitimate after the overthrow of the monarchy? Or the empire? Or the republic?

by /u/zactary in /r/AskHistorians

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