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Speaker 1: The Black Republic that terrified the world, introducing Haiti, I

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Speaker 1: Know it All. Welcome back to another episode of the

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Speaker 1: most anticipated podcasts, especially in February on the Black Effect

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Speaker 1: podcast Network, entitled I Didn't Know. Maybe you didn't either,

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Speaker 1: And these next seven episodes you need your digital passport.

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Speaker 2: That's right, I told you.

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Speaker 1: Season five we had some twisting turns and some places

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Speaker 1: you can't even drive, so make sure.

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Speaker 2: That digital passport is straighty.

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Speaker 1: We taken off in about ninety seconds, so don't be lady.

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Speaker 2: If you've got a significant.

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Speaker 1: Other, please bring a dity because episode five fifteen.

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Speaker 2: We're headed to haighty. But before we hop on flights

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Speaker 2: one six, one nine, it.

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Speaker 1: Is customary that we give you three of the most

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Speaker 1: useless fact you'll never need ever, not a day in life.

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Speaker 1: Up first, Haiti is the only nation in history founded

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Speaker 1: by formally enslaved people who defeated their enslavers. Your second

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Speaker 1: useless fact. France forced Haiti to pay for its own freedom,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't finish collecting that money until nineteen hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty seven. That independence. That was about one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty million francs. That's the equivalent to twenty one

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Speaker 1: billion dollars in today's money when you factor in the

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Speaker 1: interest and the lost economic growth. France literally invoiced freedom

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Speaker 1: for Haiti and didn't finish collecting until nineteen forty seven.

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Speaker 1: That is wild and your third useless fact. Haiti's revolution

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Speaker 1: scares so many slave holding nations that they try to

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Speaker 1: erase it from the history books, which is why we're

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Speaker 1: putting it in today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe

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Speaker 1: you didn't either. So let's get your passport scanned and

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Speaker 1: board flight once six one nine to Haiti. And I

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Speaker 1: know one thing I want to know. If Haiti is

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Speaker 1: the only nation in history who's enslaved people defeated they're enslavers,

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Speaker 1: then why they're the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. I didn't know. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. Maybe you didn't me. I didn't know. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. Maybe you didn't.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: So here's what they don't frame. Correct.

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Speaker 1: Haiti ain't the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere because

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Speaker 1: the Haitians failed. Haiti is punished because the Haitians succeeded

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Speaker 1: in the late seventeen hundreds.

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Speaker 2: Haiti.

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Speaker 1: At that point they was called Saints Dominge and it

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Speaker 1: was the richest colony in the world, not the priud

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Speaker 1: of France. It was the money printer for France, sugar, coffee,

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Speaker 1: labor stolen through slavery. Then enslaved African says something that

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Speaker 1: the world just wasn't ready to hear. Nah. Just like

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Speaker 1: that Nah meeting adjourn and what followed wasn't just the rebellion.

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Speaker 1: It was a full military revolution. It was organized, it

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Speaker 1: was strategic, and above all it was successful. Man enslaved

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Speaker 1: black folk beat the French armies. They put built to

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Speaker 1: the British forces. They spanked the Spanish troops back to

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Speaker 1: back to back like the ninety one, ninety two, and

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Speaker 1: ninety three Bulls, and Michael Jordan would have been Tucson

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Speaker 1: Layover Tour. He was the revolution's leader. Bruh never lost

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Speaker 1: a major battle. He was six and on in finals.

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Speaker 1: Napoleon Bonaparte sent forty thousand troops to Haiti. Most of

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Speaker 1: them never made it back home, and in eighteen o

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Speaker 1: four Haiti became the first black republic. Now here's the

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Speaker 1: part that terrified the entire world.

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Speaker 2: Haiti didn't just free itself.

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Speaker 1: It proved that enslaved black folks could organize governments, run economies,

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Speaker 1: defeat empires.

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Speaker 2: Well, that broke the lot that was holding slavery together.

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Speaker 1: So Europe and the United States got on a FaceTime

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Speaker 1: and said, cool, but we can't let this look normal.

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Speaker 1: France demanded that Haiti pay for the loss of enslaved people.

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Speaker 1: Other nations they refused to trade with Haiti. The United

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Speaker 1: States didn't officially recognize Haiti until eighteen sixty two. Damn

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Speaker 1: near sixty years after their independence. Do you know what

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Speaker 1: was happening in the United States in eighteen sixty two?

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Speaker 1: They were still enslave in black folk. Haiti wasn't isolated

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Speaker 1: because it failed. Haiti ain't the poorest country in the

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Speaker 1: Western Hemisphere because it failed. Haiti ain't destitute because it failed.

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Speaker 1: Haiti is all of those things because it worked. A

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Speaker 1: century after Haiti shocked the world, Carter G. Woodson created

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Speaker 1: Negro History Week because he knew stories like this would

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Speaker 1: be buried, not because they weren't important, but because they dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Haiti proved that black freedom was possible without approval, and

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Speaker 1: that's scared everybody.

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Speaker 2: Look if Black History money is celebrating its one hundred year.

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Speaker 2: AY been celebrating black freedom since eighteen o four and

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, your passport has been stamped.

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Speaker 2: Next up, Mexico,