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17
April
1825

France recognizes Haiti under a coercive indemnity ordinance

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📅 17 April 1825 📍 Haiti

Charles X’s ordinance recognized Haiti’s independence while requiring Haiti to pay 150 million francs in five annual installments to compensate former colonists for property losses. The ordinance was backed by a French naval threat and sharply reduced Haitian tariff autonomy. France described the payment as indemnity; from a decolonial perspective it transferred the costs of emancipation onto the formerly enslaved population and the new state, while compensating former slaveholders.

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Charles X

Jean-Pierre Boyer

former Saint-Domingue colonists

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

French Crown

Republic of Haiti

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