Also, everyone should be reminded that France demanded repayment from Haiti for lost profits to slave owners after the revolution and continued to take money until the 1940s, and (at least as of 2015) has no intention of paying reparations.

One of the great shortcomings of the U.S. education system is how it avoids mention of the Haitian Revolution and its impact on U.S. and global history. The Haitian Revolution is the culmination of ideas and movements begun by the American and French Revolutions:

that one legitimately had me choked up

Just looking at Benin’s “Gateway of No Return” feels like standing in a cemetery. Think of all the African lives that ended on that shore and were replaced with horror.