This is also a period of economic…

1840 CE to 1851 CE

This is also a period of economic stagnation in Haiti. 

Revenues from agriculture decline as the ill-tended and subdivided land yields less and less.

Payments to France empty the federal reserves, and the national treasury is chronically in default.

Presidents appeal to foreign countries for loans and help to stay in power.

A new and lucrative business emerges: coup-making.

German merchants fund rebellions on speculation, and Haitian mercenaries, known as cacos, carry out the coups.

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