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Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:
1) Hosted the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) General Meeting in a Zoom Meeting last Wednesday with 27 attendees. CVGS member Carole Sobke presented Old Sacramento, Miss Odessa s Medical Idioms, and a Pop Quiz . The pop quiz was of old medical terms and their modern names.
2) Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group meeting on Saturday in a Zoom meeting. Kathy Fernandes presented Managing You Family Files as a Database.
3) Attended today s Mondays With Myrt webinar. The panel discussed the use of land records in genealogy, finding places on maps, using Deedmapper software, finding maps on History Geo, the BLM web site, USCIS fees, County History books, the streets of Providence, DPLA books and maps, and Mary Roddy s newspaper clippings find.
The Haitian Independence Debt
Mark Weidemaier and Mitu Gulati
The Haitian Independence Debt of 1825 is perhaps the most odious in the history of sovereign debt. France agreed to grant recognition to the Haitian state in exchange for a massive indemnity payment, ostensibly intended to compensate French plantation owners for losses suffered during Haitian revolution. With French gunboats lurking in port and offshore, the French imposed a massive and unpayable debt burden equal to roughly 5 times the annual French budget.
Surprisingly, the literature on odious debt pays fairly little attention to this episode. Perhaps this because the doctrine of odious debt was developed with a view towards borrowing by a despot who is subsequently overthrown. Must the populace repay money borrowed to oppress it? Thus, when Haiti does show up in the odious debt literature, the question typically involves debts incurred by the despotic Duvalier regimes. The Independence Debt, by contrast was incurr