Also known as: La Verite sur l'Emprunt d'Haiti, The Truth About the Haiti Loan, 1875 Haiti debt pamphlet
Last updated: April 16, 2026
An 1875 Parisian pamphlet warning French investors against subscribing to a new Haitian government loan of 83 million francs. Written from a French financial perspective, it inadvertently provides devastating evidence of the 1825 indemnity's long-term consequences: Haiti's export economy had declined from 500 million francs annually under colonialism to 50 million francs by 1875, and the country was trapped in a debt cycle — borrowing to repay earlier borrowing. The pamphlet reproduces official Haitian government documents, testimony from a former Haitian finance minister, and detailed colonial-era production statistics. Despite its self-interested framing, it is one of the most detailed primary sources on the indemnity's economic consequences.
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Anonymous (French financial commentator). "La Vérité sur l'Emprunt d'Haïti." Casimir Pont, Libraire-Éditeur, Paris, 1875. Rasin.ai, https://rasin.ai/connections/sources/1838-haiti-debt-truth. Accessed 2026-05-05.