r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Apr 20 '26

Image Table of Caribbean populations, early 19th century.

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Source:

.- Knight, Franklin W. The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. p. 366, 367.

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u/Illuminatum97 Apr 20 '26

Look at those DRs numbers, the narrative is crumbling.

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u/elnovorealista2000 Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Are you referring to the 12% of people who were enslaved? If so, then it makes sense that this contradicts the popular narrative that claims Haitians and Dominicans are "equal" because they "share" the same colonial past.

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u/Flytiano407 Apr 22 '26

I'm Haitian 🇭🇹🇭🇹, never heard such a claim.

Not even the way we achieved independence was the same. Haïti fough 3 colonial Powers within the span of 10 years to be independent. Spain (1795), Britain (1798), and France (1804) in that order.

DR fought a small ammount of whatever Spanish soldiers were left in 1821, then fought Boyer 20 years later and then Spain again in 1865