How paying colonizers for freedom stunted economic growth in Haiti, other nations
On Location: July 23, 2021
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When Haiti won its independence nearly 200 years ago, it came at a hefty price -- an estimated $21 billion today.
The country spent the next century paying off the debt to its former slave owners, France.
It's a financial conundrum that those experts and historians say have helped keep some formerly colonized countries impoverished: the demand by former slave owners and colonizers for pay in exchange for independence.MORE: After the assassination of Haiti’s president, a nation in turmoil and a doctor jailed