The issue of United States recognition of…
1825 CE
The issue of United States recognition of Haiti is again debated in the Senate in the 1820's.
Southern senators refuse to acknowledge a nation formed by black slaves who rebelled against white slaveholders.
“Our policy with regard to Haiti is plain”, insists Senator Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina, a former attorney general and commander of the troops during the Vesey Rebellion. “We never can acknowledge her independence.”
He and other Jacksonians also oppose U.S. participation in a conference of the Americas proposed by Simón Bolívar, largely because it would mean dealing with black Haitian representatives as peers.