# Selling sovereignty

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-sovereignty/362211>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 26, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-sovereignty/362211 "2006-06-26T15:41:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-sovereignty/362211/21 "2006-06-28T02:04:07Z")

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[QUOTE=First Amongst Daves]  
If your date is correct, it became independent at almost the same time as the Louisiana Purchase. Why wasn’t it part of the deal? Hard to imagine the US government of the time wouldn’t want a sea base out that way.  
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No cite, but the way I learned it in high-school history, **after** Haiti won its independence, Napoleon declared, “Damn colonies!” And decided to sell Louisiana to the U.S.

At that time, Haiti was a turbulent post-revolutionary state – where black slaves had rebelled **succesfully!** :eek: – and the Americans would have wanted as little to do with it as possible.

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**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-sovereignty/362211/22 "2006-06-28T04:53:57Z")

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[QUOTE=Captain Amazing]  
Consider myself stifled.

**CBEscapee** , would you do me the honor of starting a thread on this matter in Great Debates, or should I?  
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I’m leaving on vacation tomorrow for about 10 days. I’d be happy to civily debate you on the subject when I return.

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