Erin Conroy on Nostr: Now, I wonder what you were taught in school about the Louisiana Purchase. Probably ...

Now, I wonder what you were taught in school about the Louisiana Purchase. Probably some hagiographic crap about what a clever genius Jefferson was at negotiation.

No. The Haitian people taught Napoleon that he could not control them from so far. Imo it was more important to Napoleon to maintain white supremacy & the institution of slavery - than to maintain its own colony. The new "American" colonists were closer to hand & had a better shot at controlling enslaved people.