While the violence of the slave rebellion lasted many years and was well worth the ultimate result of freedom. It did not shield them from the lasting effects of the revolution.
With Haiti’s new found freedom, they ran into one huge problem. They have all of this coffee and sugar canes just lying around the fields but no to buy them. America refused to trade with the first black independent country with fear that it would give their own slave ideas of rebellion. It was well known amongst the world that Haiti had an official policy of accepting any black person who arrived on their land as a citizen. America took it one step further and refused to acknowledge Haiti as and independent country until 1862. (2)(3)
America did not miss the opportunity
With Haiti’s new found freedom, they ran into one huge problem. They have all of this coffee and sugar canes just lying around the fields but no to buy them. America refused to trade with the first black independent country with fear that it would give their own slave ideas of rebellion. It was well known amongst the world that Haiti had an official policy of accepting any black person who arrived on their land as a citizen. America took it one step further and refused to acknowledge Haiti as and independent country until 1862. (2)(3)
America did not miss the opportunity