This has just sent me into the forbidden peanut butter jar ... A letter from Bordeaux's slave traders in 1790 worried about the National Assembly's 'intention to abolish the slave trade. Some of their arguments: some were already slaves anyway, we actually saved them.
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I already know the request was denied but want to see how far greed can take you.
(Ref. Archives Bordeaux Metropole, Fonds Révolutionnaires)
2/ one historical reason for the poverty in Haiti is the monstrously ruinous reparations demanded by French slave owners when the country gained its independence