Note 424 — The Struggle for the Recognition of Haiti and Liberia as Independent Republics
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Seger, Haiti, p. 179.
America was subjected to these taxes as shown by: "While the citizens of France are scarcely affected in their importations to Haiti, the Americans here import and our merchants at home export scarcely any article that is free."—"Commercial Relations," Vol. 1, p. 560.