Re: [A-List] Henry Liu on central banking 3a

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for setting the record straight.  You are right that we are all
victims of white cultural hegemony.  Just for the record, can you suggest a
more objective source.
Thanks,

Henry C.K. Liu




bon moun wrote:

> > The most significant achievement of the Jefferson presidency was the
> > Louisiana Purchase. In 1800, the Treaty of San Ildefonso secretly
> > transferred Louisiana from Spain to France, which presented the United
> > States with the alarming prospect of a vigorous and expansionist European
> > power controlling the mouth of the Mississippi river to block the
> westward
> > expansion of the US. James Monroe was sent to Paris to negotiate the
> > purchase of Louisiana from a willing Napoleon Bonaparte, who earlier had
> > sent an expeditionary army to Haiti to put down a black slave rebellion
> with
> > subsequent plans to occupy New Orleans to exercise French control over
> > Louisiana. The decimation of the French expeditionary army by yellow
> fever,
> > the need for more troops for renewed Napoleonic wars in Europe, and the
> > difficulty of running the British naval blockade convinced Napoleon that
> > strengthening the United States as a potential ally under a pro-French
> > Jefferson and as a potential rival of Britain might serve French
> interests.
>
> Just to set the whole record straight...  White historians are very
> reluctant to point this out, but yellow fever was only part of the
> equation, and a part factored in by the General who defeated Napolean's
> troops on the battlefield - Jean Jacques Dessalines, a former slave.  And
> that "slave rebellion" translated into a successful revolution for
> independence, the first black nation, the first independent nation in Latin
> America, and the seocnd independent nation in this hemisphere.  The
> reluctance of white historians to tell this story is based on the fact that
> it shattered once and for all the myth of white supremacy.