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

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

"The Black Jacobins"

-C. L. R. James


"What is logical to the oppressor is not logical to the oppressed."

-Malcolm X
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: [A-List] Henry Liu on central banking 3a


> 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.
>
>
>