King Charles X’s ordinance of 17 April 1825 offered diplomatic recognition of Haiti on condition that the Haitian state pay 150 million francs to compensate former colonists for property lost through the revolution, including enslaved people. The demand treated human beings as compensable property and shifted the financial cost of emancipation onto the formerly enslaved. It was backed by French military power and challenged the sovereignty won in 1804.
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What did the revolutionary constitution seek to prevent?
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The constitution asserted sovereignty and sought to secure emancipation against recolonization.