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Let's talk about Haiti!

So by now, the Haitians have a simmering conflict on their hands. It's not likely to shape many votes from the electorate so I don't have it listed but it is a good example of a concrete example of American foreign policy on the Britain - France dilemma spectrum.

But regardless its really more than simmering....its boiling over. Led by former slave and the first black general in the French Army, Toussaint Louverture there has been an open slave revolt there since 1791. Louverture has fought on the side of whoever was more willing to ensure the end of slavery on the island.

By 1800 Louverture has succeeded in freeing the slaves from nearly the entire island and is in control of Saint-Domingue and has begun to construct a government.

Adams supports the Louverture government and is the only government in the world that recognizes it as legitimate. Their detente with the British has freed them to be able to oppose the French in Haiti. Jefferson sees this slave revolt with two minds but his political allies are terrified of what a successful slave revolt would do to their own livelihoods and Jefferson sees providing support to Napoleon in Haiti as a way to curry favor.

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