Haiti: Reparations Yes! Deportations No!

The photo “UNIFA Event for Restitution” is credit: UNIFA

The calls from Haiti have echoed around the world: “France, Pay Your Debt To Haiti!”

Demonstrators from Haiti to France to San Francisco, London, Belize, and Jamaica have demanded that France pay for the ransom it extracted from Haiti 200 years ago as the price for its independence and for the “crime” of freeing itself from slavery.

On January 1, 1804, after a successful revolution, the Haitian people emancipated themselves from slavery and colonialism...