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cquilt-40015	Ray-Ellis, Max	Haiti - Harmed at the Hands of Others	2023	8	.pdf	application/pdf	4211	223	59	In the 1780s, when Haiti was the French colony of “Saint- Domingue,” it was the wealthiest colony in the world, pro- ducing nearly half of its sugar exports and a more signifi- cant proportion of its coffee.6 Losing Haiti was a blow that France did not wish to accept, and it spent several decades attempting to negotiate compensation for the “property” lost by its citizens in Haiti, which included both land and the formerly enslaved people.7 France and Haiti attempted negotiations for this compensation on multiple occasions under different regimes before King Charles X of France issued a virtual ultimatum in 1825. NO. 1 57 Haiti – Harmed at the Hands of Others Max Ray-Ellis Centre for Caribbean Studies Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto Max Ray-Ellis is an undergraduate student from North York, Ontario.	cache/cquilt-40015.pdf	txt/cquilt-40015.txt