The Collège de France to Host a Conference on Haiti’s Double Debt of Independence

The symposium on the dual debt of Haitian independence will be held to commemorate the 200th anniversary of that event this year. According to the organizers, the symposium has three objectives. It aims to “take stock of the episode of 1825 with the leading experts on the subject, in order to understand how the indemnities were calculated and then paid, the context in which they were imposed on Haiti, the consequences they had—both short and long term—on Haitian society, economy, and politics, as well as the commercial cond