Lisa Purdy

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So when Haiti made its last payment for dismantling its slavery state, it was actually paying an American bank that was built on slave trafficking—a bank owned by a man who disregarded international law to build the City Bank of New York, an entity that built its power via the institution of slavery, with money partially stolen by an international conglomerate of white soldiers who occupied Haiti.
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
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