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SUMMARY:Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France - Malick Ghac
 hem (MIT) 
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CONTACT:Dr AM Price
DESCRIPTION:The subordination of Haiti to the demands of servicing French 
 public and private debt goes back to the Mississippi Bubble. It was in 172
 0 that Haitians were first placed under the yoke\, not only of the tropica
 l plantation enterprise\, but of the perverse logic that says people of we
 st African descent must be sacrificed to satisfy the unbridled monetary ap
 petites and financial woes of the French nation. That is an unrecognized c
 ost of the Mississippi Bubble and of so much of the Euro-Atlantic experien
 ce of financial modernization. The bubble that was the sugar revolution di
 d not burst in Saint- Domingue with the defeat of Law's plans for the colo
 ny. Instead\, the planters internalized and privatized the financial and e
 conomic logic of the System against which they had rebelled\, making of it
  a script for the management of plantation society. Saint-Domingue became 
 a bubble colony.
LOCATION:https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96305688386
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