Watching this video of Kwame Ture talk about Haiti (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ09Z8Bu2V4) and I have moments where I'm like "damn really?" but I'm immediately reminded that the lens in which history is taught controls how we can imagine our future.

Like he mentions Haitian influence in the freedom of places like Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela and the only requirement Haiti had was the slaves in the area were also freed. That and the immediate freedom granted to any runaway slave and it being the first (and probably only) democratic entity to actively fight for slave freedom. All of that feels fictional and impossible to imagine. Especially with the time, we're taught not to focus on anything else but what slave holders did here in the United States. Not that America was giving money to maintain slavery in other parts of the world ever since it came to be.