This petition calls for the full restitution by the State of France of funds it extorted from the Republic of Haiti at gun point starting in 1825. On April 7, 2003, the value of the infamous Charles X ransom was estimated at $22 billion by Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who demanded its restitution.
This demand is an initial measure of economic justice and respect for Haiti's territorial sovereignty and revolutionary legacy.
VÈSYON KREYÒL:
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VERSION FRANÇAISE:
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REFERENCE DOCUMENTS:
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1804)
« The generals and chiefs of the army, in the name, of the people of Hayti signed a formal declaration of independence, and took a solemn oath to renounce France forever, pledging themselves to each other, to their posterity, and to the universe, to die rather than submit again to her dominion.»
Within the first weeks of 1804, Dessalines published a proclamation, offering to the captains of American vessels the sum of forty dollars for each individual native or black man of colour, whom they should convey back to Hayti.
THE CODE NOIR (MARCH 1685)
Article XII. Children born from marriages between slaves shall be slaves, and if the husband and wife have different masters, they shall belong to the masters of the female slave, not to the master of her husband.
CONSTITUTION OF HAITI (1805)
Art. 1. The people inhabiting the island formerly called St. Domingo, hereby agree to form themselves into a free state sovereign and independent of any other power in the universe, under the name of empire of Hayti.
Art.2. Slavery is forever abolished.
ORDINANCE OF CHARLES X (APRIL 1825)
In 1825, French ruler Charles X offered to recognize Haiti's independence on the condition that the new Black Republic pays 150 million gold francs in ransom. The extorted bounty was distributed to white slave holders for the loss of “property” they claim to have suffered as a result of the abolitionist Haitian Revolution.
This illegal and barbaric ransom was collected from 1825 to 1947. It was collected by violent means with an official ordinance of the French State which threatened to re-enslave the self-liberated Africans.
1853: French Admiral Duquesne threatens to bombard Port-au-Prince to restart payments on the French ransom which had been stopped in 1852 by Haitian Emperor Faustin Soulouque.
March 1877: French gun-boat aggression against Haiti. At issue: resumption of payments on the 1825 ransom - balance then re-estimated at 20 million gold Francs.
HOW AND TO WHOM DID FRANCE DISTRIBUTE THE RANSOMED FUNDS
See: Papers of William Conrad Schutte (1737-1806), a Haitian planter who emigrated to Portsmouth, Va., ca.1793, including Schutte's bills, accounts, deeds, miscellaneous legal papers, and correspondence in Haiti, 1769-1789; and papers, 1825-1832, of Schutte's widow, chiefly concerning her attempt to secure compensation from France for property losses in the Haitian revolt in the 1790s.
On April 7, 2003, the value of the infamous Charles X ransom was estimated at $22 Billion by Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who demanded its restitution.
March-May 2015: A delegation of Haitian children (descendants of abolitionist leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines) from all corners of the island await French President François Hollande as he prepares to set foot in Haiti, on May 12, 2015.
Their demand is clear and simple: TIME TO RETURN TO US OUR STOLEN BREAST MILK!
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
May 25, 2011
May 22, 2011
We are approaching one thousand signatures and need to maintain this momentum to force a response. Post the petition link to your Facebook page right now. Text three people and tell them why this restitution is long overdue.
Reached 100 supporters
April 29, 2005
April 28, 2005
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to hit this benchmark to prove our momentum to the press. Post the link on Facebook right now and text three friends to demand they sign today.
39 Comments
France must pay back with compounded interest inflation-adjusted if it (France) is to be just!
This was being forced to pay the criminals who were robbing you, for the loss of their criminal enterprise.
It is immoral act to make a country who fought for their freedom to pay for the recognition of their independence. France, must give the restitution to Haiti. We the Haitian people will always use our voice to make France give us what is belong to us. Free Haiti, The first Black Republic in the world.
$22 billion is just the cash money France has extorted from Haiti. Add to that all the profit extracted from Haiti in minerals and so forth. Then, as in any legal suit, there is the matter of pain and suffering. France--and the United States government and various corporations!--owes billions more. On top of that they are morally required to supply education to Haitians who, if not for the continuing occupation and looting of their land, would have been able to educate their own people. The occupying powers need to do all this and more--and then stay the hell out of Haiti!
Mesi for this opportunity to stand with you for justice - the return of the precious money extorted from a courageous new nation of free blacks.
Time to pay for your crimes
Il est grand de se penser sur cette envers nous qui s’accumule de jour en jour. Merci
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This petition calls for the full restitution by the State of France of funds it extorted from the Republic of Haiti at gun point starting in 1825. On April 7, 2003, the value of the infamous Charles X ransom was estimated at $22 billion by Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who demanded its restitution.
This demand is an initial measure of economic justice and respect for Haiti's territorial sovereignty and revolutionary legacy.
VÈSYON KREYÒL:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/restitisyonpoua...
VERSION FRANÇAISE:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/restitutionpour...
REFERENCE DOCUMENTS:
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1804)
« The generals and chiefs of the army, in the name, of the people of Hayti signed a formal declaration of independence, and took a solemn oath to renounce France forever, pledging themselves to each other, to their posterity, and to the universe, to die rather than submit again to her dominion.»
Within the first weeks of 1804, Dessalines published a proclamation, offering to the captains of American vessels the sum of forty dollars for each individual native or black man of colour, whom they should convey back to Hayti.
THE CODE NOIR (MARCH 1685)
Article XII. Children born from marriages between slaves shall be slaves, and if the husband and wife have different masters, they shall belong to the masters of the female slave, not to the master of her husband.
CONSTITUTION OF HAITI (1805)
Art. 1. The people inhabiting the island formerly called St. Domingo, hereby agree to form themselves into a free state sovereign and independent of any other power in the universe, under the name of empire of Hayti.
Art.2. Slavery is forever abolished.
ORDINANCE OF CHARLES X (APRIL 1825)
In 1825, French ruler Charles X offered to recognize Haiti's independence on the condition that the new Black Republic pays 150 million gold francs in ransom. The extorted bounty was distributed to white slave holders for the loss of “property” they claim to have suffered as a result of the abolitionist Haitian Revolution.
This illegal and barbaric ransom was collected from 1825 to 1947. It was collected by violent means with an official ordinance of the French State which threatened to re-enslave the self-liberated Africans.
1853: French Admiral Duquesne threatens to bombard Port-au-Prince to restart payments on the French ransom which had been stopped in 1852 by Haitian Emperor Faustin Soulouque.
March 1877: French gun-boat aggression against Haiti. At issue: resumption of payments on the 1825 ransom - balance then re-estimated at 20 million gold Francs.
HOW AND TO WHOM DID FRANCE DISTRIBUTE THE RANSOMED FUNDS
See: Papers of William Conrad Schutte (1737-1806), a Haitian planter who emigrated to Portsmouth, Va., ca.1793, including Schutte's bills, accounts, deeds, miscellaneous legal papers, and correspondence in Haiti, 1769-1789; and papers, 1825-1832, of Schutte's widow, chiefly concerning her attempt to secure compensation from France for property losses in the Haitian revolt in the 1790s.
On April 7, 2003, the value of the infamous Charles X ransom was estimated at $22 Billion by Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who demanded its restitution.
March-May 2015: A delegation of Haitian children (descendants of abolitionist leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines) from all corners of the island await French President François Hollande as he prepares to set foot in Haiti, on May 12, 2015.
Their demand is clear and simple: TIME TO RETURN TO US OUR STOLEN BREAST MILK!
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
May 25, 2011
May 22, 2011
We are approaching one thousand signatures and need to maintain this momentum to force a response. Post the petition link to your Facebook page right now. Text three people and tell them why this restitution is long overdue.
Reached 100 supporters
April 29, 2005
April 28, 2005
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to hit this benchmark to prove our momentum to the press. Post the link on Facebook right now and text three friends to demand they sign today.
39 Comments
I would like to state my position regarding the restitution . I just want to ask the French to think deeply from inside and draw a conclusion their economy and the Haitians Economy.and determine if it is not an embarasment for them to have the courage to hold such sum from the western's hemisphere poorest nation.How should the world describ this action.? May you Citizens of the world come together as one in order to extract that money from France so desperately needed in Haiti.
France must pay back with compounded interest inflation-adjusted if it (France) is to be just!
This was being forced to pay the criminals who were robbing you, for the loss of their criminal enterprise.
It is immoral act to make a country who fought for their freedom to pay for the recognition of their independence. France, must give the restitution to Haiti. We the Haitian people will always use our voice to make France give us what is belong to us. Free Haiti, The first Black Republic in the world.
$22 billion is just the cash money France has extorted from Haiti. Add to that all the profit extracted from Haiti in minerals and so forth. Then, as in any legal suit, there is the matter of pain and suffering. France--and the United States government and various corporations!--owes billions more. On top of that they are morally required to supply education to Haitians who, if not for the continuing occupation and looting of their land, would have been able to educate their own people. The occupying powers need to do all this and more--and then stay the hell out of Haiti!
Mesi for this opportunity to stand with you for justice - the return of the precious money extorted from a courageous new nation of free blacks.
Time to pay for your crimes
Il est grand de se penser sur cette envers nous qui s’accumule de jour en jour. Merci
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I would like to state my position regarding the restitution . I just want to ask the French to think deeply from inside and draw a conclusion their economy and the Haitians Economy.and determine if it is not an embarasment for them to have the courage to hold such sum from the western's hemisphere poorest nation.How should the world describ this action.? May you Citizens of the world come together as one in order to extract that money from France so desperately needed in Haiti.