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**cajonnmu** · 01-08-2011, 09:46 PM

Adan is completely right about the trees... when the French demanded payment.. and ALL the other imperial powers insisted on it... and all Haiti was the Mahagony.. so they cut it to sell it..

there is lots of info on the mahagony as a canopy tree in the rain forests.. about how when you cut that tree, the whole forest goes.. and i know that Haiti was never really a rain forest but I think that tree was a really important one..

Also.. was it not part of the first takeover of the DR.. that payment of the reparations? Didn't the US use part of those customs to help pay the debt to France? I do not think that the entire debt was paid off until 1947 or so.

Haiti was the ONLY colony that EVER had to pay reparations/./

not that I am blaming

just observing

01-08-2011, 09:46 PM	#2
cajonnmu Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 507 Senior Member	Adan is completely right about the trees... when the French demanded payment.. and ALL the other imperial powers insisted on it... and all Haiti was the Mahagony.. so they cut it to sell it.. there is lots of info on the mahagony as a canopy tree in the rain forests.. about how when you cut that tree, the whole forest goes.. and i know that Haiti was never really a rain forest but I think that tree was a really important one.. Also.. was it not part of the first takeover of the DR.. that payment of the reparations? Didn't the US use part of those customs to help pay the debt to France? I do not think that the entire debt was paid off until 1947 or so. Haiti was the ONLY colony that EVER had to pay reparations/./ not that I am blaming just observing
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