America's Historic Debt to Haiti
Haiti's troubled elections have put the impoverished Caribbean nation briefly back into U.S. consciousness, but few Americans know the historic debt that they owe to Haiti. Arguably, no country did more for the United States and was treated worse for it -- a raw deal dating back two centuries to an extraordinary triangle of conflict involving Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte and Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture.For the full story of this early chapter of U.S. lost history, go to Consortiumnews.com.
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