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IDKMYDE: Haiti: The Black Republic That Terrified the World · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The Black Republic that terrified the world, introducing Haiti, I
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  Speaker 1: Know it All. Welcome back to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: most anticipated podcasts, especially in February on the Black Effect
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  Speaker 1: podcast Network, entitled I Didn't Know. Maybe you didn't either,
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  Speaker 1: And these next seven episodes you need your digital passport.
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  Speaker 1: We taken off in about ninety seconds, so don't be lady.
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  Speaker 2: We're headed to haighty. But before we hop on flights
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  Speaker 2: one six, one nine, it.
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  Speaker 1: Is customary that we give you three of the most
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  Speaker 1: useless fact you'll never need ever, not a day in life.
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  Speaker 1: Up first, Haiti is the only nation in history founded
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  Speaker 1: by formally enslaved people who defeated their enslavers. Your second
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  Speaker 1: useless fact. France forced Haiti to pay for its own freedom,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't finish collecting that money until nineteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty seven. That independence. That was about one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty million francs. That's the equivalent to twenty one
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars in today's money when you factor in the
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  Speaker 1: interest and the lost economic growth. France literally invoiced freedom
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  Speaker 1: for Haiti and didn't finish collecting until nineteen forty seven.
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  Speaker 1: That is wild and your third useless fact. Haiti's revolution
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  Speaker 1: scares so many slave holding nations that they try to
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  Speaker 1: erase it from the history books, which is why we're
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  Speaker 1: putting it in today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you didn't either. So let's get your passport scanned and
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  Speaker 1: board flight once six one nine to Haiti. And I
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  Speaker 1: know one thing I want to know. If Haiti is
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  Speaker 1: the only nation in history who's enslaved people defeated they're enslavers,
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  Speaker 1: then why they're the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. I didn't know. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. Maybe you didn't me. I didn't know. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. Maybe you didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: So here's what they don't frame. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Haiti ain't the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere because
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  Speaker 1: the Haitians failed. Haiti is punished because the Haitians succeeded
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  Speaker 1: in the late seventeen hundreds.
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  Speaker 2: Haiti.
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  Speaker 1: At that point they was called Saints Dominge and it
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  Speaker 1: was the richest colony in the world, not the priud
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  Speaker 1: of France. It was the money printer for France, sugar, coffee,
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  Speaker 1: labor stolen through slavery. Then enslaved African says something that
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  Speaker 1: the world just wasn't ready to hear. Nah. Just like
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  Speaker 1: that Nah meeting adjourn and what followed wasn't just the rebellion.
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  Speaker 1: It was a full military revolution. It was organized, it
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  Speaker 1: was strategic, and above all it was successful. Man enslaved
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  Speaker 1: black folk beat the French armies. They put built to
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  Speaker 1: the British forces. They spanked the Spanish troops back to
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  Speaker 1: back to back like the ninety one, ninety two, and
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  Speaker 1: ninety three Bulls, and Michael Jordan would have been Tucson
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  Speaker 1: Layover Tour. He was the revolution's leader. Bruh never lost
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  Speaker 1: a major battle. He was six and on in finals.
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  Speaker 1: Napoleon Bonaparte sent forty thousand troops to Haiti. Most of
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  Speaker 1: them never made it back home, and in eighteen o
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  Speaker 1: four Haiti became the first black republic. Now here's the
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  Speaker 1: part that terrified the entire world.
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  Speaker 2: Haiti didn't just free itself.
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  Speaker 1: It proved that enslaved black folks could organize governments, run economies,
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  Speaker 1: defeat empires.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that broke the lot that was holding slavery together.
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  Speaker 1: So Europe and the United States got on a FaceTime
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  Speaker 1: and said, cool, but we can't let this look normal.
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  Speaker 1: France demanded that Haiti pay for the loss of enslaved people.
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  Speaker 1: Other nations they refused to trade with Haiti. The United
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  Speaker 1: States didn't officially recognize Haiti until eighteen sixty two. Damn
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  Speaker 1: near sixty years after their independence. Do you know what
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  Speaker 1: was happening in the United States in eighteen sixty two?
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  Speaker 1: They were still enslave in black folk. Haiti wasn't isolated
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  Speaker 1: because it failed. Haiti ain't the poorest country in the
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  Speaker 1: Western Hemisphere because it failed. Haiti ain't destitute because it failed.
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  Speaker 1: Haiti is all of those things because it worked. A
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  Speaker 1: century after Haiti shocked the world, Carter G. Woodson created
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  Speaker 1: Negro History Week because he knew stories like this would
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  Speaker 1: be buried, not because they weren't important, but because they dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Haiti proved that black freedom was possible without approval, and
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  Speaker 1: that's scared everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Look if Black History money is celebrating its one hundred year.
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  Speaker 2: AY been celebrating black freedom since eighteen o four and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations, your passport has been stamped.
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  Speaker 2: Next up, Mexico,