Listen to the following — Promises, Promises: The Conquistadors and the Birth of the Modern World Economy, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054qc22
Read the following — The Birth of Capitalism https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054qf7d
Read the following — Liliana Obregón “Empire, Racial Capitalism and International Law: The Case of Manumitted Haiti and the Recognition Debt,” Leiden Journal of International Law 31: 597-615, 2018.
Read the following — Eric Nagourney, “6 Takeaways About Haiti’s Reparations to France,” The New York Times, May 20, 2022, sec. World, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/takeaways-haiti-reparations-france.html
Question to answer: The readings outline a complicated chain of debts and competing claims to reparations throughout Haiti’s history. Trace the chain of possession and obligation from the Arawak/Taino natives to Citibank and contemporary Haitian governments. To the best of your ability, make a case for where the debt ledger currently stands: who owes what to whom, and for what? Feel free to include other sources/research in your answer.
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